[Twisted-Python] calling reactor.run() twice in PB app
Eric Smith
eric+twisted at trueblade.com
Wed Feb 15 20:25:12 MST 2006
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>> If anyone could summarize the problem, and if you're serious about
it getting fixed, I could look at it.
> Unfortunately this is not a simple problem. It involves auditing every
> aspect of the reactor's internal state, including the threadpool, and
> validating that its internal state is consistent before terminating
> run(). It also means making sure that every buffer is flushed, all
> outstanding bytes are read, etc. Then you have to do that for each
> reactor. You'd also have to add an API that specifically did this kind
> of "soft" shutdown; flushing buffers without closing connections,
> stopping all threads, and so forth.
Mission accomplished! You've scared me away from even wanting to do
this! Actually I think I'll poke around a bit. I did spend all day
reading the posix reactor code, and your comments here are helpful.
I think you're correct about using popen(), since I really just want
this to work in the near future. The data is simple enough that I think
I can just print repr() of the data and eval it on the reader side (I
know, I know ...).
But another thought I had was a non-twisted python implementation of PB,
blocking on the socket calls since I'm just doing request-response. But
I'm guessing that would be non-trivial as well.
> However, it would certainly be a great way to learn the ins and outs of
> the reactor API. I don't particularly want the functionality but I
> suspect that adding it will flush out some latent bugs in at least one
> reactor implementation, so I'm not opposed to seeing it done.
>
> If you would like to work on something else though, we definitely need a
> dedicated Windows maintainer ... ;)
Well, I've written Win32 and IOCP, but I currently focus on Linux. Given
that I don't work much with Windows any more (at least not when I can
avoid it), I don't think I'd be a good Windows maintainer, sorry. But
I'm willing to help where I can.
Thanks for the comments. Are you going to PyCon? Maybe I'll bump into
you there. I enjoyed your talks in years past.
Eric.
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