[Python-Dev] Signals+Threads (PyGTK waking up 10x/sec).

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:17 AM +0100 12/8/07, Johan Dahlin wrote:
>Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Adam, perhaps at some point (Monday?) we could get together on
>> #python-dev and interact in real time on this issue. Probably even
>> better on the phone. This offer is open to anyone who is serious about
>> getting this resolved. Someone please take it -- I'm offering free
>> consulting here!
>>
>> I'm curious -- is there anyone here who understands why [Py]GTK is
>> using signals anyway? It's not like writing robust signal handling
>> code in C is at all easy or obvious. If instead of a signal a file
>> descriptor could be used, all problems would likely be gone.
>
>The timeout handler was added for KeyboardInterrupt to be able to work when
>you want to Ctrl-C yourself out of the gtk.main() loop.

Is that always required (with threads), or are things better now that
Ctrl-C handling is improved (at least in the Socket module, which doesn't
lose signals anymore)?
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