[Python-Dev] Any updates on this subprocess/signal bug/issue (Re: subprocess and EINTR errnos)

Hatem Nassrat hnassrat at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 20:18:40 CEST 2009


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Peter Astrand wrote,
> I've made a patch (attached) to subprocess.py (and test_subprocess.py)
> that should guard against EINTR, but I haven't committed it yet. It's
> quite large.
> 
> Are Python modules supposed to handle EINTR? Why not let the C code handle
> this? Or, perhaps the signal module should provide a sigaction function,
> so that users can use SA_RESTART.

This is a snippet from a email sent in 2004, I was wondering if there
was any update on this issue. Are these issues supposed to be handled on
a per application basis, or will a fix go into Python in the near
future?

-- 
Hatem Nassrat

Refrences: 
    
    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-November/049983.html


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