[Python-3000] improved threading in py3k

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> writes:

> I did not read all of that paper, but it seems to rely on the
> (un)masking of signals in threads, as well as the sending of signals
> to 'kill' a thread.

They are not OS signals: it's entirely the matter of the language's
runtime system.

(But Unix signals can be nicely exposed as these signals for the
programmer.)

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