[Python-Dev] Where to put the interrupt module?

[Greg Ewing]

Kevin Jacobs <jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com>:

> That chunk of code is very problematic.  Some platforms/threading libraries
> will deliver a SIGINT to all threads, which can abort many system calls that
> are not trivially restarted/restartable.

But aren't we just talking about having one thread explicitly cause an
asynchronous exception to be raised in another? That's a different
thing from handling Unix signals.

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