I don’t understand how any of the proposed approaches that wrap JDBC calls in Actors, executors or anything else can help here – can someone clarify. Surely the basic problem is that the JDBC operations block on socket IO. When it does this it blocks the Thread its running on – end of story. Whatever … Read more
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(o => FireAway()); (five years later…) Task.Run(() => FireAway()); as pointed out by luisperezphd.
fcntl, select, asyncproc won’t help in this case. A reliable way to read a stream without blocking regardless of operating system is to use Queue.get_nowait(): import sys from subprocess import PIPE, Popen from threading import Thread try: from queue import Queue, Empty except ImportError: from Queue import Queue, Empty # python 2.x ON_POSIX = ‘posix’ … Read more