Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> added the comment:
> Back in 2007 the only POSIX-compliant type allowed for that was sig_atomic_t, > anything else was undefined. Fair enough, but having a non-atomic type is still much better than a completely wrong type. In other words, the requirement of fitting a file descriptor is more important than being atomic. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue1583> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com