Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Because calling exit() is the right way to end a process. For example, > it does the following: > - atexit()-registered finalizers are run > - stdio streams are flushed and closed (although it could probably > done by the interpreter) > - files created with tmpfile() are removed (on POSIX systems, they're > removed after creation, but you can imagine an implementation where > they would need to be explicitely removed upon close) > > This would not be performed if the signal is raised. > Since the user has the possibility of restoring default signal > handlers with SIG_DFL, I think we could stcik with the current > behavior.
Ah, ok, I agree with you, then. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14229> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
