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Tue Sep 5 20:16:56 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-September/068630.html

Johan Dahlin wrote:
> Nick Maclaren wrote:
>> "Gustavo Carneiro" <gjcarneiro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ....  I'm pretty sure writing to a pipe is async signal safe.  It is the
>>> oldest trick in the book, everyone uses it.  I ...  know that it works.
>> Ah.  Well, I can assure you that it's not the oldest trick in the book,
>> and not everyone uses it.
> ...
> Can't this just be enabled for platforms where it's known to work and let
> Python as it currently is for the users of these legacy systems ?

Ah, but that _is_ the current state of affairs.  .5 :-)

-- Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org

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