| 1 | # This is a variant of the very old (early 90's) file |
| 2 | # Demo/threads/bug.py. It simply provokes a number of threads into |
| 3 | # trying to import the same module "at the same time". |
| 4 | # There are no pleasant failure modes -- most likely is that Python |
| 5 | # complains several times about module random having no attribute |
| 6 | # randrange, and then Python hangs. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | import thread |
| 9 | from test.test_support import verbose, TestSkipped |
| 10 | |
| 11 | critical_section = thread.allocate_lock() |
| 12 | done = thread.allocate_lock() |
| 13 | |
| 14 | def task(): |
| 15 | global N, critical_section, done |
| 16 | import random |
| 17 | x = random.randrange(1, 3) |
| 18 | critical_section.acquire() |
| 19 | N -= 1 |
| 20 | # Must release critical_section before releasing done, else the main |
| 21 | # thread can exit and set critical_section to None as part of global |
| 22 | # teardown; then critical_section.release() raises AttributeError. |
| 23 | finished = N == 0 |
| 24 | critical_section.release() |
| 25 | if finished: |
| 26 | done.release() |
| 27 | |
| 28 | # Tricky: When regrtest imports this module, the thread running regrtest |
| 29 | # grabs the import lock and won't let go of it until this module returns. |
| 30 | # All other threads attempting an import hang for the duration. Since |
| 31 | # this test spawns threads that do little *but* import, we can't do that |
| 32 | # successfully until after this module finishes importing and regrtest |
| 33 | # regains control. To make this work, a special case was added to |
| 34 | # regrtest to invoke a module's "test_main" function (if any) after |
| 35 | # importing it. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | def test_main(): # magic name! see above |
| 38 | global N, done |
| 39 | |
| 40 | import imp |
| 41 | if imp.lock_held(): |
| 42 | # This triggers on, e.g., from test import autotest. |
| 43 | raise TestSkipped("can't run when import lock is held") |
| 44 | |
| 45 | done.acquire() |
| 46 | for N in (20, 50) * 3: |
| 47 | if verbose: |
| 48 | print "Trying", N, "threads ...", |
| 49 | for i in range(N): |
| 50 | thread.start_new_thread(task, ()) |
| 51 | done.acquire() |
| 52 | if verbose: |
| 53 | print "OK." |
| 54 | done.release() |
| 55 | |
| 56 | if __name__ == "__main__": |
| 57 | test_main() |