The 2.6/3.0 Multiprocessing todo list
With the latest beta's out in the wild - and the test suite being 100% less locky with the fix for issue874900 - it's time to button down and start polishing/closing out the remaining bugs. Unfortunately, some of them are, well - "complicated".
This is more of a personal tracking for what's remaining - anyone who wants to pitch in and help is more than welcome (in fact, it's encouraged). Working on this stuff - like most of the python-core team is a part time job for me, so the more eyes the merrier.
- issue3256: Multiprocessing docs are not 3.0-ready
- I need to basically review/apply the patch and run through the examples on both 2.6 and 3.0. Andrii rocks.
- issue874900:threading module can deadlock after fork
- This bug isn't in my camp, but I want to see it to completion as it very obviously directly impacted the mp package.
- issue3419: multiprocessing module is racy
- The connection refused error has been resolved, and I need to review Mark's proposed patch to the incref part of the bug
- issue3321:_multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle
- This is from Victor's fuzzing of the mp module. Still need to review/test - I attached his test updates to the bug today.
- Need a windows-happy fix.
- issue3311:block operation on closed socket/pipe for multiprocessing
- Another fuzzing bug courtesy of Victor.
- issue3352 : Deficiencies in multiprocessing/threading API
- Work has started on this one courtesy of Ben Peterson - I am going to start focusing on this as well.
- issue3125: test_multiprocessing causes test_ctypes to fail
- This one is done, pending a merge of the fix to py3k - see issue3385
- issue3270: test_multiprocessing: test_listener_client flakiness
- Just pending an added doc warning for the 0.0.0.0 issue trent brought up.
- issue3350 : multiprocessing adds built-in types to the global copyreg.dispatch_table
- Can probably be closed with the fix to issue3125
- issue3206:Multiprocessing Array and sharedctypes.Array error in docs/implementation
- Doc issue, patch pending - I need to review. Andrii again, rocks.
- issue3111 : multiprocessing ppc Debian/ ia64 Ubuntu compilation error
- I added a check to simply not run the tests that were failing on the platforms which raise an exception when creating the RLock - not the best, or final solution. Need to revisit.
- issue3110 : Multiprocessing package build problem on Solaris 10
- Solaris build problem: I lack a solaris machine to test with - and my solaris-fu is weak sauce.
- issue3149 : multiprocessing build fails on Solaris 10
- See above. With my solaris being weak, the most I can hope for is grabbing a VMWare Fusion image for Solaris 10 and learning the hard way.
- issue3578: 'dictionary changed size' error in test_multiprocessing
- Antoine may have found the issue - need to research
- issue3518: multiprocessing: BaseManager.from_address documented but doesn't exist
- Doc issue
- Easy to fix.
Last Updated: Aug 18 2008
And that concludes "the list" - I still need to update the PEP with some minor edits, expand the test suite/make it simpler among other things. Since this is more of a hit-list for me, I'll keep this post updated with the movement of all of the tasks.
So far, the most challenging part of this is not the technical aspect: It's the making-the-time-to-get-it-done aspect. In the grand scheme of life - it's home(baby) > work > open source. Good times.
