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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: "xm save" trouble -- deadlock?
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:24:59 +0100
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> I've done a threaded fix already.  You're welcome to have a go at doing it
> without a thread if you want, but I think it'll be messy.

Looks like, yes.  Mixing the high-level buffered file I/O together with 
select() (and non-blocking fd's) usually doesn't work out very well. 
Going down using os.read() instead likely makes the code more complex 
than using one thread per file descriptor ...

cheers,

   Gerd