[Python-Dev] Testing Socket Timeouts patch 1519025

[Josiah Carlson]

Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:38:38 -0700, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
> >
> >If someone is looking for a project for 2.6 that digs into all sorts of
> >platform-specific nastiness, they could add actual signal sending to the
> >signal module (at least for unix systems).
> 
> Maybe I am missing something obvious, but what is necessary beyond
> os.kill()?

I note that os.kill() does everything necessary for posix systems. 
I didn't notice that it took an argument for the kind of signal.

A new project for someone: combine all of the methods available to
Windows into a single function.


> What /would/ be useful is a complete sigaction wrapper, but that's a
> completely separate topic.

Like atexit, only a stack per signal?

 - Josiah