[Zope-dev] more on the segfault saga

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 17:17, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Leonardo Rochael Almeida writes:
>  > In any event, Martijn Jacobs (a.k.a. instability case #3 :-) sees his
>  > crashes in pure dtml methods, which could mean that PythonScripts are
>  > inocent in this case... or not, since the segfault hits inside the gc,
>  > which might be collecting something completely unrelated to the current
>  > requests.
> Just a wild guess: is the GC guaranteed to be thread safe?

The gc acquires the big interpreter lock before doing it's stuff. which
is not the same thing, since C code could be doing bad stuff. Question,
how the gc differentiates between an unreachable object and an object
that's reachable only by C code?

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