STINNER Victor added the comment: > My worry is that somehow a program has a fd that refers to both a file and a > socket. But I agree that changing the API is not a great option either.
Well, when I read again my patch and played with it, I saw that it has different issues: - a Windows socket handle is not an int, but a pointer: Python SOCKET_T type should be used instead - when send() fails, we should reuse the code from socketmodule.c to raise an exception: we may need to check GetLastError() on Windows I rewrote my patch to add a new function signal.set_wakeup_socket() instead of trying to guess if the file descriptor is a socket or a file. I adopted a similar approach in the PEP 446 with os.set_inheritable() and os.set_handle_inheritable() for the same reason: support sockets on Windows, socket.socket.set_inheritable() uses os.set_inheritable() on UNIX and os.set_handle_inheritable() on Windows. signal.set_wakeup_socket() now takes a socket.socket object and returns the previous socket object (or None). In the new patch, signal.set_wakeup_fd() and Py_SetWakeupFd() function are unchanged, which is more safer regarding to backward compatibility! The first call to signal.set_wakeup_socket() imports the _socket module. The Visual Studio still needs to be modified to add the dependency to the WinSock library ("ws2_32.lib"), just for the send() function. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36011/signal_socket-2.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22018> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com