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| -rw-r--r-- | src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py b/src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py index ff91bf9..c81eecf 100644 --- a/src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py +++ b/src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ else: spawn_lock = threading.Lock() +# This locked version of spawnve works around a Windows +# MSVCRT bug, because its spawnve is not thread-safe. +# Without this, python can randomly crash while using -jN. +# See the python bug at http://bugs.python.org/issue6476 +# and SCons issue at +# http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2449 def spawnve(mode, file, args, env): spawn_lock.acquire() try: |