Re: Threads?

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:18:45 +0100

> I just got the Python 1.0.3 distrib, and it looks like threads only
> work with Solaris (sunos 5.x) Is there a reason why it wouldn't work
> with the FSU pthreads package?

Threads also work with SGI IRIX 4 and 5 (if that platform is still
worth considering).

Tim Peters did a pthreads version of the thread.c file which will be
in 1.1 (out really soon now). I had some trouble getting it to work
under SunOS 4.1.3 (Tim's port was for a KSR machine with a pthread
version based on a lightly different draft) but that's probably mostly
my own lack of knowledge anout pthreads.

> Also, has anybody implemented the necessary stuff for RPC servers and
> clients using Python?

There's a full Sun RPC interface somewhere in the Demo directory
(Demo/rpc?) and a few other RPC like things elsewhere in the Demo dir.

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