[Python-Dev] Python-dev signal-to-noise processing question

[Reid Kleckner]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:43 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Unfortunately (?) the question also revealed a lack of understanding
> of a fairly basic concept. IIUC, he wanted to know how Python
> handles SIGKILL, when the hole point of SIGKILL is that you cannot
> handle it. So he shouldn't have been surprised that he couldn't find
> a place in Python where it's handled.

No, you misunderstood.  He knew that one cannot set a SIGKILL signal
handler.  He just wanted to find the code in CPython responsible for
turning that error into an exception for the purposes of giving a
tutorial on signals.

Reid