2013/2/1 Charles-François Natali <cf.nat...@gmail.com> > >> dup2(oldfd, newfd) closes oldfd. > > > > No, it doesn't close oldfd. > > > > It may close newfd if it was already open. > > (I guess that's what he meant). > > Anyway, only dup2() should probably release the GIL. > > One reasonable heuristic is to check the man page: if the syscall can > return EINTR, then the GIL should be released.
Should the call be retried in the EINTR case? (After a PyErr_CheckSignals) -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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