On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Bart Trojanowski <bart-oclug [ at ] jukie [ dot ] net> wrote: > While that could be that the bug is in libc, I'd bet it's the user of > the pthread library that's not releasing the lock. Certainly possible. > Just googling for "python futex strace" shows few similar problems (with > other software). If you say that your python software does not do any > locking or even use threads... then it could be a bug in python. > > Is it possible for you to try your software on a newer release of > the python interpreter? I tried building my own vanilla python.org 2.3.7 and it didn't fix the issue. I could jump to 2.4 as we're going there soon anyway. I'm also going to build without thread support in one version to confirm the location of the problem. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <msoulier [ at ] digitaltorque [ dot ] ca> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein