[ZODB-Dev] [Persistent] STICKY mechanism unsafe

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Mon Aug 20 13:56:41 EDT 2007


Jim Fulton wrote at 2007-8-20 10:15 -0400:
>Excellent analysis snipped....
>
>> 1. and 3. (but obviously not 2.) could be handled by
>> implementing "STICKY" not by a bit but by a counter.
>
>This has been planned for some. :/

I have (reread) this in your "Different Cache Interaction" proposal.

Thanks to the GIL, it will also work for concurrent access from
different threads -- if "Used" and "Unused" are notified while
the GIL is held.



-- 
Dieter


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