On Dec 8, 2007 9:20 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The > handler must be written in C in order to avoid the race condition > referred to by Glyph (signals arriving after the signal check in the > VM main loop but before the select()/poll() system call is entered > will not be noticed until the select()/poll() call completes).
Sorry, I misattributed this; Gustavo Carneiro pointed this out earlier in this thread. BTW, in the referenced post (also by Gustavo), I found this: """ According to [1], all python needs to do to avoid this problem is block all signals in all but the main thread; then we can guarantee signal handlers are always called from the main thread, and pygtk doesn't need a timeout. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/process_bug.cgi#c3 """ Unfortunately I can't read [1] without having registered, so I can only guess what it says. But I know that Python already ensures that signals are only delivered to the main thread. What am I missing? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
