Backed out changeset b6c206049d8a
The nvmemmory library depends on a modification to qemu; this change
is therefore backed out in order to allow NVM functionality to be
merged into graphics-phase-3 by transplanting individual commits.
# f.close() is not thread-safe: calling it at the same time as another
# operation (or another close) on the same file, but done from another
# thread, causes crashes. The issue is more complicated than it seems,
# witness the discussions in:
#
# http://bugs.python.org/issue595601
# http://bugs.python.org/issue815646
import thread
while 1:
f = open("multithreaded_close.tmp", "w")
thread.start_new_thread(f.close, ())
f.close()