On 2006年9月04日 17:24:56 +0100, David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: >> PyGTK would presumably implement its pending call callback by writing a >> byte to a pipe which it is also passing to poll(). > >But doing that in a signal handler context invokes undefined behaviour >according to POSIX.
write(2) is explicitly listed as async-signal safe in IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004. Was this changed in a later edition? Otherwise, I don't understand what you mean by this. Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com