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Re: RFA: properly handle the GIL


>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

Daniel> This looks OK.  Is this a recursive lock?  That is, do we have to
Daniel> worry about GDB -> Python -> GDB -> Python taking the lock twice?

We don't have to worry.  Python provides several APIs to the GIL; the
one that we use is reentrant.  Sorry for not mentioning this before --
I forgot about it.

Also, I realized people may be wondering about thread safety in gdb.
For the time being I think we should just ignore this and require that
Python scripts be careful to run code in gdb's thread.

I'll commit this tomorrow.

Tom


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