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While working on the PEP 475, I noticed that the faulthandler module doesn't handle well reentrant calls to its signal handlers. If a signal is received while faulthandler is displaying the traceback, faulthandler restarts to display a new traceback (and then finish to display the previous traceback).
Moreover, faulthandler uses the C function write() to display the traceback and it ignores write() errors. It should retry write() if write() is interrupted by a signal (fails with EINTR).
Attached py_write_noraise.patch:
- Add a new _Py_write_noraise() function
- Document functions releasing the GIL
Attached traceback_eintr.patch:
- Modify functions displaying traceback to use _Py_write_noraise() instead of write()
Attached faulthandler_eintr.patch:
- Add a reentrant flag to the two signal handlers of faulthandler
- Modify faulthandler.dump_traceback() to call PyErr_CheckSignals(), to call the Python signal handler if a signal was received while faulthandler was displaying the traceback of all Python threads