On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 at 09:14, Victor Stinner <vstin...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Le sam. 22 sept. 2018 à 01:05, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > > 3. Why does signal handling operate via the "pending calls" machinery > > and not distinctly? > > Signals can be received anytime, between two instructions at the > machine code level. But the Python code base is rarely reentrant. > Moreover, you can get the signal while you don't hold the GIL :-)
This would actually be the main reason to keep the current behaviour: at least some folks are running their applications in subthreads as a workaround to avoid https://bugs.python.org/issue29988 and the general fact that Ctrl-C handling and deterministic resource cleanup generally don't get along overly well. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
