Greg Ward  writes:

> Signal handling raises all sorts of red flags with me, mainly because
> people much smarter than me stay away from it, and I don't really
> understand their reservations.  Your patch looks about as safe as a
> signal handler can, though.  BTW, did you try os._exit() rather than
> sys.exit()?  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).  os._exit() is a
> much shorter path to the real exit() system call.

Um, a signal handler you set in Python doesn't run when the signal
gets delivered, it runs when the Python event loop next runs.  The C
level signal handler just sets a flag saying "we've had a  signal".

Running Python code a signal delivery time sounds adventurous :)

Cheers,
M.

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