On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:48:53AM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
> Signal handling raises all sorts of red flags with me, mainly because
> people much smarter than me stay away from it

Run away, run away!

> sys.exit() involves raising a Python exception, which undoubtedly
> involves allocating memory, which is a no-no for signal handlers
> (malloc() is not reentrant on some systems).

That's not really a problem for signals in Python.  The interpreter
doesn't do anything inside the real signal handler except note that the
signal occurred.  The bytecode evaluation loop periodically checks if a
signal has occurred and executes the handler.

  Neil