On Dec 14, 2007 2:12 PM, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 05:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >>The best solution I can think of is to add a new API that takes a > >>signal and a file descriptor and registers a C-level handler for that > >>signal which writes a byte to the file descriptor. You can then create > >>a pipe, connect the signal handler to the write end, and add the read > >>end to your list of file descriptors passed to select() or poll(). 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). > > > > This paragraph jogged my memory. I remember this exact solution being > > discussed now, a year ago when I was last talking about these issues. > > Ayup. I am extremely far from an expert here, but anyone wanting to > have an informed opinion should really re-read the threads after these > posts: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-September/068569.html > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-January/070772.html > > I would recommend requesting review from either Nick Maclaren or Tim > Peters as well.
Oh no, not Nick Maclaren! Anyway, did you see that we resolved this and have a patch ready for review? http://bugs.python.org/issue1583 -- --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
