[Ironpython-users] IronPython, Daily Digest 4/26/2012

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Hi ironpython,

Here's your Daily Digest of new issues for project "IronPython".

In today's digest:ISSUES

1. [New issue] signal module does not work on non-Windows machines

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ISSUES

1. [New issue] signal module does not work on non-Windows machines
http://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/32627
User jdhardy has proposed the issue:

"The current implementation of 'signal' is Windows-specific. Getting it to work on Mono will take some trickery in the code, but it should be possible.

Dino's take:
"It looks like the current signal implementation won't work off of Windows.  There's a call to SetConsoleControlHandler that happens when the signal module gets imported - which is very windows specific and is going to fail on all other platforms.

This can all be handled at runtime in a graceful way, but the calls to platform specific APIs need to be moved into non-inlinable methods.  In this case it seems like the 2 implementations are going to be pretty different given that everyone but windows has a reasonable signal function, so it might start to get to be a pain to keep both in the same module at the same time.  If someone wanted to get really adventurous they could add a platform attribute to PlatformID parameter to PythonModuleAttribute and have different implementations of modules for different platforms - then implementing the Unix signal implementation is probably pretty easy.""
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