[docs] [issue1215] documentation doesn't say that you can't handle C segfaults from python

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

Le mercredi 31 août 2011 02:52:01, vous avez écrit :
> > What do you want to do on a SIGSEGV? On a real fault, you cannot rely on
> >  Python internal state, you cannot use any Python object. To handle a
> > real SIGSEGV fault, you have to implement a signal handler using only
> > *signal safe* functions.... in C.
> 
> Well, strictly speaking, it is very hard or impossible to write C code
> that's guaranteed to be safe after an unexpected segv too

It is possible if you only use signal safe functions. I think that no Python 
function is signal safe :-)

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