Gustavo Carneiro wrote: > The only potential problem left is that, by changing the pipe file > descriptor to non-blocking mode we can only write as many bytes to it > without reading from the other side as the pipe buffer allows. If a > large number of signals arrive very quickly, that buffer may fill and > we lose signals.
That might be an argument for *not* trying to communicate the signal number by the value written to the pipe, but keep a separate set of signal-pending flags, and just use the pipe as a way of indicating that *something* has happened. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
