22 Oct
2009
22 Oct
'09
8:15 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:32:17PM -0700, Scott wrote:
Actually, PyGTK applications. The update manager relies on PyGTK.
Python applications not dependent on PyGTK are unaffected.
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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
From the
horse's mouth:
It has to do with Python's lack of support for signals in threads.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481569
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4680
The Red Hat people have put a lot of work into fixing this, along with
Sugar.
Python apps which initialize threads will end up waking every 1/10th of a
second, rather than idling properly.