On Dec 10, 2007 4:26 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adam & I are now on #python-dev. Can you join? > > I think we successfully resolved this. Adam Olsen will produce a patch > that allows one to specify a single file descriptor to which a zero > byte will be written by the C-level signal handler. Twisted and PyGTK > will have to coordinate about this file descriptor. Glyph believes > this is possible and sufficient.
http://bugs.python.org/issue1583 > > (A preliminary version of the patch may be found here: > http://dpaste.com/27576/ ) > > We considered two alternatives: > > (a) A patch by myself where the file descriptor would instead be > passed together with a signal handler. This was eventually rejected > because it places an extra burden on every piece of code that > registers a signal handler. > > (b) A more elaborate patch by Adam which would allow many file > descriptors to be registered. This was rejected for being more code > and solving a problem that most likely doesn't exist (multiple > independent main loops running in different threads). > > We also located the exact source of the 100 msec timeout in PyGTK: > > http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/pygtk/trunk/gtk/gtk.override?annotate=2926 > > line 1075: *timeout = 100; > > The recommendation for the OLPC XO project is to remove this line or > make the timeout much larger, as the only reason why this was even > added to PyGTK is wanting a fast response to ^C from the console, > which doesn't represent a viable use case on the XO. > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/rhamph%40gmail.com > -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
