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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-04-27 17:09:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-04-27 17:09:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 2622b549d71ebc569c0cb9a1ab01cd464a1f9e90 (patch) | |
| tree | 79489826590e8f9cd1138ff573e86ed19fa9af19 /Doc/c-api/init.rst | |
| parent | 9bc668251f260d3edd71555cd7027e15927ed8ad (diff) | |
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#5840: dont claim we dont support TLS.
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst index 281432b..4fb428d 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst @@ -419,10 +419,9 @@ the I/O is waiting for the I/O operation to complete. The Python interpreter needs to keep some bookkeeping information separate per thread --- for this it uses a data structure called :ctype:`PyThreadState`. There's one global variable, however: the pointer to the current -:ctype:`PyThreadState` structure. While most thread packages have a way to -store "per-thread global data," Python's internal platform independent thread -abstraction doesn't support this yet. Therefore, the current thread state must -be manipulated explicitly. +:ctype:`PyThreadState` structure. Before the addition of :dfn:`thread-local +storage` (:dfn:`TLS`) the current thread state had to be manipulated +explicitly. This is easy enough in most cases. Most code manipulating the global interpreter lock has the following simple structure:: |