New submission from Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@twistedmatrix.com>:
Linux offers the signalfd syscall since 2.6.22 (with minor changes afterwards). This call allows signals to be handled as bytes read out of a file descriptor, rather than as interruptions to the flow of a program. Quite usefully, this file descriptor can be select()'d on (or poll()'d, epoll()'d, etc) alongside other "normal" file descriptors. In order to effectively use signalfd(), the signals in question must be blocked, though. So it makes sense to expose sigprocmask(2) at the same time, in order to allow this blocking to be set up. ---------- assignee: exarkun components: Extension Modules, Library (Lib) messages: 103182 nosy: exarkun priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: expose signalfd(2) and sigprocmask(2) in the signal module type: feature request versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8407> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
