I just wanted to see if anyone else experienced a problem with the
Thread.join() method in Python 2.4. Unfortunately, I did not debug this
problem fully before re-writing my code to avoid Thread.join().
My specific situation was that I called subprocess.Popen() to spawn a
separate process with the stdout redirected to a pipe. I then created
a Thread to process the data coming through the pipe. The thread would
terminate when it encountered EOF on the pipe.
When I used Thread.join(), I would encounter symptoms that lead me to
believe that join() was returning before the subprocess actually
terminated. After I rewrote the code to manually manipulate a lock
instead of using Thread.join(), the symptoms went away.
I guess that I'm just curious to see if anyone else has encountered a
problem here, so that a bug can be filed if necessary. I did a quick
Google search, but didn't see any other reports.
Thanks,
- Mike
