On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:43 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Unfortunately (?) the question also revealed a lack of understanding > of a fairly basic concept. IIUC, he wanted to know how Python > handles SIGKILL, when the hole point of SIGKILL is that you cannot > handle it. So he shouldn't have been surprised that he couldn't find > a place in Python where it's handled.
No, you misunderstood. He knew that one cannot set a SIGKILL signal handler. He just wanted to find the code in CPython responsible for turning that error into an exception for the purposes of giving a tutorial on signals. Reid _______________________________________________ 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
