Re: Webware/Apache Threading Problem?

On 9/13/06, Gary Perez <gary.perez-kSqzKFmFPN9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks to everyone for your suggestions, investigations, etc.
> especially to Christoph Zwerschke, who discovered what turned out to
> be the cause of the problem.
>
> Don't use os.chdir() in a threaded environment.
>
> I apologize to everyone if this is common knowledge, but it's news to
> me. At Chris' suggestion, removing the chdir calls in the two modules
> fixes the problem, and everything works as expected.

After launching, should the WebKit app server do something like this:

def bad_chdir(path):
    raise Exception('You cannot reliably use os.chdir() in a threaded
environment.')

os.chdir = bad_chdir

?

Seems like this would catch this kind of error early on and save
people some time.

-Chuck

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