Charles-Francois Natali <[email protected]> added the comment:
> If we agree so far, I believe that an implementation of untilConcludes
> *should* be added to stdlib ("signal.restartable_call", anyone?).
Definitely, it's better to have this handler written once and correct than
having various implementations scattered around libraries.
> If people agree, I'd be happy to produce the patch (trunk+py3k, doc+test).
Go ahead :-)
> According to "man 7 signal" select must be explicitely restarted, regardless
> of the SA_RESTART flag.
man sigaction states this:
SA_RESTART
Provide behaviour compatible with BSD signal semantics by making _certain_
system calls restartable across signals.
Indeed: you can't really rely on SA_RESTART, since certain syscalls are not
restartable, and this flag isn't really portable.
select is even specific since the file descriptor sets can be modified, and the
timeout too.
That's why it's definitely better to take the EINTR-wrapper approach.
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