From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <psprint@zdharma.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Loading Eprog in other thread doesn't work
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 04:42:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <etPan.59488bb1.127d0173.63ea@zdharma.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <etPan.59483072.5b1b299a.63ea@AirmailxGenerated.am>
On 19.06.2017 at 22:12:53, Bart Schaefer (schaefer@brasslantern.com) wrote:
> Neither signal handling (which includes reaping child processes when
> they exit) nor memory management is thread-safe, and there may be
> shared memory issues with threads and traditional process forking as
> well. The more threads you try to have the more likely you're going
> to be to wander into one of these areas. I'd be very skeptical that
> you can just plop threading into one part of zsh without at least some
> serious semaphore work on the rest of it.
But the only thing that I do concurrently is loading of Eprog. So, open(), read(), that's all. When I invoke execode(), it is the main thread. "source_prepare" does the open, read, while "source_load" takes Eprog that is ready to use.
--
Sebastian Gniazdowski
psprint /at/ zdharma.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-20 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-19 14:37 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2017-06-19 20:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-06-20 4:37 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2017-06-20 6:02 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <etPan.59483072.5b1b299a.63ea@AirmailxGenerated.am>
2017-06-20 2:42 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski [this message]
2017-06-20 5:59 ` Bart Schaefer
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