[issue10311] Signal handlers must preserve errno

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth at usit.uio.no> added the comment:

Antoine Pitrou writes:
> By the way, I'd like to clear out a potential misunderstanding: the
> function you are patching doesn't call Python signal handlers in itself
> (those registered using signal.signal()). (...)

Good point - I'm talking C signal handlers, not Python signal handlers.

> If you want to save errno around Python signal handlers
> themselves, PyErr_CheckSignals must be patched as well.

Probably not.  I don't know Python's errno conventions, if any, but
it's usually a bug to use errno at any distance from the error.  The C
code near the error can save errno if it wants it later.  It can't do
that around C signal handlers, since those can get called anywhere.

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