On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote: > [Kevin J] > > That chunk of code is very problematic. Some platforms/threading libraries > > will deliver a SIGINT to all threads, which can abort many system calls that > > are not trivially restarted/restartable. > > While I was worried about this when writing the original code (that's > the only way to explain some of the things it does), I'm not sure if > we really have to worry about such platforms any more; I certainly > have never heard a report of such behavior. On Unix and Unixish > systems, pthreads rule. Windows doesn't have real signals. Mac OS is > now also Unix. PalmOS doesn't have threads. What other platforms are > relevant? The thread_pthreads already masks signals to newly created threads. I have patches to add signal masking to solaris and pth threads. I'm not sure how much either are used anymore, though. -Kevin -- -- Kevin Jacobs The OPAL Group - Enterprise Systems Architect Voice: (216) 986-0710 x 19 E-mail: jacobs@theopalgroup.com Fax: (216) 986-0714 WWW: http://www.theopalgroup.com
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