New submission from Enji Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com>:
As noted in https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262487, cpython relies on the definition of NSIG when building signal handlers to determine what signals are and aren't invalid. Unfortunately on FreeBSD, NSIG doesn't include [SIGRTMIN,SIGRTMAX], as shown below: $ python2 Python 2.7.18 (default, Dec 3 2020, 01:19:40) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible FreeBSD Clang 8.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_801/final 366581)] on freebsd12 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import signal >>> signal.signal(signal.SIGRTMIN, signal.SIG_DFL) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: signal number out of range >>> exit() $ python3 Python 3.8.12 (default, Jan 4 2022, 01:10:15) [Clang 10.0.1 (g...@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-10.0.1-0-gef32c611a on freebsd12 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import signal >>> signal.signal(signal.SIGRTMIN, signal.SIG_IGN) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/signal.py", line 47, in signal handler = _signal.signal(_enum_to_int(signalnum), _enum_to_int(handler)) ValueError: signal number out of range >>> exit() $ python3.11 Python 3.11.0a3 (main, Feb 4 2022, 02:34:52) [Clang 10.0.1 (g...@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-10.0.1-0-gef32c611aa on freebsd12 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import signal >>> signal.signal(signal.SIGRTMIN, signal.SIG_IGN) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/signal.py", line 47, in signal handler = _signal.signal(_enum_to_int(signalnum), _enum_to_int(handler)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ValueError: signal number out of range >>> exit() $ This results in a cpython interface which doesn't match the OS's signal(3) interface: ``` $ cat signal_rtmin.c #include <err.h> #include <signal.h> int main(void) { if (signal(SIGRTMIN, SIG_DFL) == SIG_ERR) warn("signal"); return (0); } $ cc -o signal_rtmin -Wall signal_rtmin.c $ ./signal_rtmin $ uname -a FreeBSD picasso.local 12.2-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p7 GENERIC amd64 $ ``` Linux includes [SIGRTMIN,SIGRTMAX] in NSIG, which means it allows these values in signal.signal without issue (confirmed on Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS). While one can definitely argue that this is an OS portability defect and this should be resolved in FreeBSD (and thus, not fixed in cpython), it doesn't address existing behavior on older versions of FreeBSD where this hasn't been resolved yet. FreeBSD bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262487 ---------- components: FreeBSD messages: 414932 nosy: koobs, ngie priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: signal.signal, et al, doesn't support [SIGRTMIN,SIGRTMAX] on FreeBSD (not included in NSIG) versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46989> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
