[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:

> def handler(signal, stackframe):
>     print "OUCH"
>     stdout.flush()
>     _exit(1)

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.

See faulthandler_fatal_error() function:
https://github.com/haypo/faulthandler/blob/master/faulthandler.c#L257

> The documentation for this can now point to the faulthandler module
> (in Python 3).

For your information, faulthandler is available for Python older than 3.3 as a third party module:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/faulthandler

> segfault is the following C module:

For tests, you can use ctypes.string_at(0) to read a word from NULL.

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faulthandler installs a signal handler for SIGSEGV, SIGFPE, SIGABRT, SIGBUS and SIGILL signals:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/faulthandler.html

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