Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > The only sensible things you can do from a signal handler is set a > global flag, or call sem_post on a semaphore, to record the delivery > of the signal. The remainder of the program can then either poll the > global flag, or use sem_wait() and sem_trywait() on the semaphore.
but that's exactly what Python's signal handlers do, right ? (the interpreter uses a "pending call" queue to collect events, and executes them from the interpreter main loop in a controlled fashion). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
