Bug 758719

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: [TRACKER] use default asyncio event loop implementation in threads and child processes
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737698
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	761538, 591760, 758740, 758755, 764905
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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2020-12-06 07:08:57 UTC

Currently portage uses its internal EventLoop implementation in threads and child processes. It would be better if the default asyncio event loop implementation could be used instead, in order to support new features such as PEP 525 asynchronous generators. For forks, hopefully https://bugs.python.org/issue22087 can suppressed  by instantiating a new event loop in the subprocess, which is supported since https://bugs.python.org/issue29703 was fixed.