SIGCHLD signal handling

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Olaf Meyer wrote:
> Oleg,
> thanks a lot. Your code does the trick :-)

   Not my :) It was Carey Evans. Thanks Carey!

> Do you have any idea why the
>   sys.stdin.readline()
> is interrupted by the signal handler?

   Almost all libc routines are interruptable by signals. I think it is
configurable by POSIX signal functions (setsigmask etc), but I don't know
much details, and I don't know how Python implements these functions.
   Read manuals, look into Python (and other) sources. Good luck.

Oleg.
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