Charles-François Natali added the comment: > I know how to avoid the problem in my case, the bug does not really affect > me. I posted it because I thought that the possibility to crash the > interpreter is something to be avoided at all costs.
I fully agree with you. However, that's a problem inherent to mmap(), and I don't think there's a way to avoid this, but I could be wrong. > I've found a few examples of handling non-restartable signals with longjmps, > but not that familiar with the codebase to estimate how reliably it can be > done on all supported platforms. I don't really know how this code would > behave, say, on Windows. You can't use longjmp from signal handlers. Well, you can, but 99% of the code that does it is broken, because you can only call async-safe functions from within a signal handler, and certainly can't run the intepreter. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16212> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
