[Twisted-Python] Synchronized FileDescriptor is bad
Itamar
twisted at itamarst.org
Thu Aug 16 16:49:41 MDT 2001
The fact that FileDescriptor is synchronized may lead people to think
it's thread safe, and it's not (connectionLose not being thread safe
even when syncrhonized isn't based not only on conjecture but on actual
observed errors.)
I think no code should be synchronized in threaded mode unless you
absolutely know that it will thereby be made thread safe. Otherwise,
what's the point? It's the equivalent of wrong documentation, and it
slows things down.
Since there is now a generic mechanism for running non-thread safe code
from threads (the threadtask module), there is no problem with this.
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