[Zope-dev] more on the segfault saga

Matthew T. Kromer matt@zope.com
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:38:42 -0500


Dieter Maurer wrote:

>Leonardo Rochael Almeida writes:
> > In any event, Martijn Jacobs (a.k.a. instability case #3 :-) sees his
> > crashes in pure dtml methods, which could mean that PythonScripts are
> > inocent in this case... or not, since the segfault hits inside the gc,
> > which might be collecting something completely unrelated to the current
> > requests.
>Just a wild guess: is the GC guaranteed to be thread safe?
>
>
>Dieter
>

I'm fairly sure it is; certainly, there's an activity flag which should 
prevent the collector from being reentered.

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Matt Kromer
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