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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jul 22 04:52:37 CEST 2010


On 21/07/10 23:43, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> IIUC, he wanted to know how Python
> handles SIGKILL, when the hole point of SIGKILL is that you cannot
> handle it.

No, I think he wanted to know how Python disallows
attempting to set a handler for SIGKILL, when he
couldn't find any code that special-cases SIGKILL
in the implementation of signal(). Although he
didn't express the question all that clearly, so
it's hard to tell.

-- 
Greg


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