On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:06:16 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > So, in short, Python doesn't check SIGKILL by itself. It's just > forbidden by the underlying C standard library,
Actually, it's forbidden by the kernel. The C library just passes along the error to Python, which just passes it to the application. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list