Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 8:10:24 AM UTC+13, Victor Porton wrote: >> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> The usual behaviour for POSIX is that the call is aborted with EINTR >>> after you get the signal. >> >> That poll() is interrupted does not imply that Python will run its >> pythonic signal handler at the point of interruption. That is a problem. > > * Python calls poll() > * poll() aborted with EINTR > * Python runs your signal handler > > Versus native C code: > > * your code calls poll() > * poll() aborted with EINTR > * your signal handler is run > > Where is there a fundamental difference?
I meant to call poll() from C code, not Python code. In this case when poll() is aborted with EINTR, the pythonic signal handler does not run. -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list