Ross Lagerwall added the comment:
> The right approach is to use sigblock/sigsetmask before creating the
> process, and then again after creating it. Unfortunately, these aren't
> exposed from the signal module.
Since 3.3, pthread_sigmask is exposed so the right approach can now be taken ;-)
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joseph.h.garvin added the comment:
Sorry I wasn't trying to make a request, just suggesting one potential 'fix' (I
agree that it isn't really though) to make things more intutive.
Unless the app is delayed from launching until after the assignment finishes
though I think a workaround is requi
Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
> If when it caught SIGCHLD python pushed an event onto its internal
> event loop to execute the handler, I think that would make sure it's
> deferred until after the assignment.
This is not a reasonable request. How long would you want to postpone
this? Suppo
New submission from joseph.h.garvin :
The following code will result in a traceback 99% of the time, though it may
take two runs (sometimes the first run won't trigger it, I think due to the
changing in timing from genrating the .pyc file). It spawns an instance of
/bin/echo, chosen because it
