Commit 33f4c97d authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Add dummy_thread[ing] sections and reference these from libthread[ing].

parent 48755302
......@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ and how to embed it in other applications.
\input{libselect}
\input{libthread}
\input{libthreading}
\input{libdummythread}
\input{libdummythreading}
\input{libqueue}
\input{libmmap}
\input{libanydbm}
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......@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ semaphores}) are provided.
The module is optional. It is supported on Windows, Linux, SGI
IRIX, Solaris 2.x, as well as on systems that have a \POSIX{} thread
(a.k.a. ``pthread'') implementation.
(a.k.a. ``pthread'') implementation. For systems lacking the \module{thread}
module, the \refmodule{dummy_thread} module is available. It duplicates this
module's interface and can be used as a drop-in replacement.
\index{pthreads}
\indexii{threads}{\POSIX}
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......@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
This module constructs higher-level threading interfaces on top of the
lower level \refmodule{thread} module.
The \refmodule{dummy_threading} module is provided for situations where
\module{threading} cannot be used because \module{thread} is missing.
This module is safe for use with \samp{from threading import *}. It
defines the following functions and objects:
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