[Python-Dev] Issue #8863 adds a new PYTHONNOFAULTHANDLER environment variable

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:36:50 +0100
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Am 18.12.2010 19:55, schrieb Alexander Belopolsky:
> > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> > ..
> >> In any case, this is coming pretty late; beta 2 is scheduled for this
> >> weekend, and even if this is something that only kicks in when all hope
> >> is lost anyway, it is a new feature.  I should like to hear approval
> >> from a few more devs before I will let this go into 3.2.
> >>
> > 
> > I am -1 on the feature as written.  I would be -0 if it did not
> > install signal handlers by default and even better was implemented in
> > a separate module, not in core.
> 
> This is also what I think. Installing a signal handler is a fairly
> drastic action, and I don't think the code has been sufficiently
> reviewed yet.

How much more review should it receive?

> I also share Alexander's concern that Python just shouldn't mess with
> signal handlers at all, ideally. So some trade-off has to be found to
> address that concern (e.g. by making the signal handlers only active
> for the executable interpreter, but not in the embedded case).

Well, Python already does (and also apparently messes with other things
such as FPU state), so that's a separate issue altogether.

Regards

Antoine.