Linux, fcntl, F_SETLEASE and signals

[Chris Green]

Hey folks,

Is there anyway for a signal handler in python to get the information
from a 3 argument signal handler rather than just the signal number
and stack frame?

I've got an application where I have to check for F_SETLEASE on a file
in python on Linux 2.4.  What this does is tells the kernel to notify
the current process with SIGIO that a particular file descriptor is being
modified by another process.

>>> import fcntl
>>> f = open(".zshrc", "r+")
>>> fcntl.fcntl(f, fcntl.F_SETLEASE, fcntl.F_WRLCK)
0

Now, when another process opens ".zshrc", I get a SIGIO saying
something happened.  The kernel provides the information on what
descriptor changed in a siginfo_t's si_fd field.

Is there anyway to get this from python?

Thanks,
Chris
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