From: Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 06:02:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added a warning from Greg about legacy mode with threads.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3.2~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a5495788f60ea9965d8134a0f081b57a4fc4a4f7;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

added a warning from Greg about legacy mode with threads.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
index 8c6b39284669..59dbeb96479f 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ compatible with the old python bsddb module.  For details about the more
 modern Db and DbEnv object oriented interface see the above mentioned
 pybsddb URL.
 
+\begin{notice}[warning]
+This legacy interface is not thread safe in python 2.3.x or earlier.  
+Data corruption, core dumps or deadlocks may occur if you attempt 
+multi-threaded access.  You must use the modern pybsddb interface 
+linked to above if you need multi-threaded or multi-process database 
+access.
+\end{notice}
+
 The \module{bsddb} module defines the following functions that create
 objects that access the appropriate type of Berkeley DB file.  The
 first two arguments of each function are the same.  For ease of