On Feb 18, 10:23 am, Jean-Paul Calderone
wrote:
> The exception is caused by a syscall returning EINTR. A syscall will
> return EINTR when a signal arrives and interrupts whatever that
> syscall
> was trying to do. Typically a signal won't interrupt the syscall
> unless you've installed a signal
We have a multiprocess Python program that uses Queue to communicate
between processes. Recently we've seen some errors while blocked
waiting on Queue.get:
IOError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call
What causes the exception? Is it necessary to catch this exception
and manually retry the Queue
