[issue1975] signals not always delivered to main thread, since other threads have the signal unmasked
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Dec 14 20:04:52 CET 2009
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> The spec broken is here:
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/signal.html
I would argue it is not broken. This documentation page is about a
module of the standard library, it doesn't specify the underlying C
implementation. That "the main thread will be the only one to receive
signals" is true if you consider it from the Python code's point of
view: signal handlers are always called in the main thread, even if the
OS-level signal was delivered to (and caught by) another thread.
I don't have any strong view over whether the interpreter should,
theoretically, block signals in non-main threads. But, practically,
blocking signals apparently produced issues with readline (and possibly
other libs relying on signals), which is why they are not blocked today.
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