[issue21772] platform.uname() not EINTR safe

2014-07-08 Thread Stefano Borini
Stefano Borini added the comment: Wouldn't it make sense to use the same strategy used in the subprocess fix (that is, retry?). See http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6e664bcc958d/ -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue21772] platform.uname() not EINTR safe

2014-07-08 Thread Stefano Borini
Stefano Borini added the comment: You can't use subprocess. platform is used during build. subprocess needs select, but select is a compiled module and at that specific time in the build process is not compiled yet. -- nosy: +stefanob