[Zope3-Users] Reportlab threadsafe solution?

[JPenny at ykksnap-america.com]

One way is to use another tool.  If you look at it just right, lpr is a 
general
purpose job scheduler.  It checks a lock resource, and allows only one job
to acquire the lock, etc.

The best cookbook I can find to this idea is:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Fax-Server.html

Your main problem then becomes how to efficiently detect that the 
spooled job is finished.

jim penny

zope3-users-bounces at zope.org wrote on 09/26/2006 09:14:11 AM:

> Hi
> 
> I need to produce PDFs with reportlab.
> 
> reportlab is not threadsafe. 
> 
(http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2006-June/005037.html)
> 
> I think I need a way to queue or generate a "lockfile" on requests for 
> PDFs so that only one-at-a-time is generated.
> 
> I'm hoping that there is a utility for this already, but search in the 
> source for queue or serialize or lock gets me a lot of stuff that does 
> not seem to relate to what I want.
> 
> This looks like it would be a relatively simple utility.  Has this been 
> done yet?  Any hints?
> 
> -Jim Washington
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