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simplify the thread implementation, use feature 'nothread' to disable threads instead of 'thread' to enable them, plus other fixes around threads

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Marcelo Matus 2005-12-06 19:35:03 +00:00
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@ -21,49 +21,32 @@ Version 1.3.28 (unreleased).
1.- the module thread support is enable via the "threads" module
option, ie
%module("threads"=1)
2.- For each method you want to add full thread support, you
should use the "threads" feature, as in
%feature("threads") method;
or in the directive form
%threads method;
3.- Since threads is a feature, you can enable it for the
entire interface as follow
%module("threads"=1)
%threads;
4.- Equivalent to that, is the following swig option
2.- Equivalent to that, is the following swig option
swig -threads -python ...
ie, swig enables thread support for the module and all
the methods.
ie, swig enables thread support for the module.
5.- You can partially disable thread support for each
3.- You can partially disable thread support for a given
method using:
%feature("nothreads") method;
%feature("nothread") method;
also, you can disable sections of the thread support,
for example
%feature("nothreadsblock") method;
%feature("nothreadsallow") method;
%feature("nothreadblock") method;
%feature("nothreadallow") method;
the first disable the C++/python thread protection, and the
second the python/C++ thread protection. See
pythreads.swg for more information.
the first disables the C++/python thread protection, and the
second disables the python/C++ thread protection.
6.- The current thread support is based in the PyGIL
4.- The current thread support is based in the PyGIL
extension present in python version 2.3 or later, but
you can provide the thread code for older versions by
defining the macros described in pythreads.swg.
defining the macros in pythreads.swg.
If you get a working implementation for older versions,
please send us a patch.