[Python-Dev] Testing Socket Timeouts patch 1519025

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:50:36 -0700, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
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>Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:38:38 -0700, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
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>> >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()?
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>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.
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>A new project for someone: combine all of the methods available to
>Windows into a single function.
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>> What /would/ be useful is a complete sigaction wrapper, but that's a
>> completely separate topic.
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>Like atexit, only a stack per signal?

I just mean a complete wrapping of sigaction(2).  In particular, I
need this functionality to properly install a SIGCHLD handler which
does not interfer with various I/O functions by installing the handler
with the SA_RESTART flag, which is not currently possible using the
signal.signal function.

Jean-Paul