[Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 475, Retry system calls failing with EINTR

[Antoine Pitrou]

Hi,

I'm +1 on the whole PEP.

> Writing a signal handler is difficult, only "async-signal safe"
> functions can be called.

You mean a C signal handler? Python signal handlers are not restricted.

> Some signals are not interesting and should not interrupt the the
> application.  There are two options to only interrupt an application
> on some signals:
> 
> * Raise an exception in the signal handler, like ``KeyboardInterrupt`` for
>   ``SIGINT``
> * Use a I/O multiplexing function like ``select()`` with the Python
>   signal "wakeup" file descriptor: see the function
>   ``signal.set_wakeup_fd()``.

This section looks a bit incomplete. Some calls such as os.read() or
os.write() will (should) return a partial result when interrupted and
they already handled >0 bytes. Perhaps other functions have a similar
behaviour?

> On Unix, the ``asyncio`` module uses the wakeup file descriptor to
> wake up its event loop.

How about Windows?

Regards

Antoine.