[Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 475, Retry system calls failing with EINTR (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 09🔞27 CEST 2014

No, it's the opposite. The PEP doesn't change the default behaviour of SIGINT: CTRL+C always interrupt the program.

Victor Le 1 sept. 2014 08:12, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> a écrit :

On 31 August 2014 22:38, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote: > This case is described as the use case #2 in the PEP, so it is supported. As > written in the PEP, if you want to be notified of the signal, set a signal > handler which raises an exception. For example the default signal handler > for SIGINT raises KeyboardInterrupt.

Wait - sigint? Does this mean that (unless the application adds a signal handler) keyboard interrupts will be in effect ignored while in a system call? I'm not sure I like that - I'd rather Ctrl-C always interrupted the program. Specifically, in one-off scripts that don't take care to handle all errors appropriately and just show the traceback... Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140901/859789d9/attachment.html>

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