On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 12:40:34 -0700 Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > PyPy just abandons everything when shutting down, instead of running > finalizers. See the last paragraph of : > http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/cpython_differences.html#differences-related-to-garbage-collection-strategies > > So that might be a useful source of experience.
CPython can be embedded in applications, though, and that is why we try to be a bit more thorough during the interpreter cleanup phase. > Would it make sense to also move signal handlers to run in this > thread? Those are the other major source of nasty re-entrancy > problems. See the "Non-goals" section in the PEP, they are already mentioned there :-) Note I don't think signal handlers are a major source of reentrancy problems, rather minor, since usually you don't try to do much in a signal handler. Signal handling is mostly a relic of 70s Unix design and it has less and less relevance in today's world, apart from the trivial task of telling a process to shut down. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
