On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 9:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 20:58:43 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > Can someone confirm whether or not all the listed signals are actually > supported? We know that Ctrl-C maps to the internal Windows interrupt > handler, and "kill process" maps to the internal Windows "terminate", > but can you send a different process all the different signals and > handle them differently? > > I also can't find anything about path names there. What does POSIX say > about the concept of relative paths? Does Windows comply with that? > > "Windows has some features which are compatible with the equivalent > POSIX features" is not the same as "Technically, Windows is POSIX > compliant". > The way I heard it, some (US government?) contracts required POSIX compliance, so Microsoft added just enough of a mostly-useless POSIX layer to Windows to be able to win the contracts, without actually being a useful POSIX system. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
