diff --git a/Demo/threads/README b/Demo/threads/README index 47660a051c6..81bac931a31 100644 --- a/Demo/threads/README +++ b/Demo/threads/README @@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ This directory contains some demonstrations of the thread module. -This module is only (optionally) available for the SGI, for now. +This module is only available, optionally, for a few platforms: SGI +IRIX 4 and IRIX 5, SunOS 4 (not completely functioning), Solaris 2, +and supposedly any platform that supports Posix Threads (currently +only tested with KSR's implementation). See ../../Python/thread.c. These are mostly "proof of concept" type applications: -find.py Parallelized "find(1)". +bug.py Demonstrate a bug with importing modules in threads. +condition.py Condition variables test by Tim Peters. +find.py Parallelized "find(1)" (looks for directories). Generator.py Generator class implemented with threads. telnet.py Version of ../sockets/telnet.py using threads. wpi.py Version of ../scripts/pi.py using threads and stdwin.