From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Compile-time flag to enable optional EINTR's?
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 09:15:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180907131508.GK1878@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABpewhFEqn1H7hLxxp53beNwzeAPhsu6n-C9gJnThYcLkc4wcw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 12:09:33AM -0400, Joseph C. Sible wrote:
> > Can you discuss what you're trying to use EINTR for here?
>
> It's for a Python program with several threads that are often waiting
> on various locks, events, etc., all implemented by Python in terms of
> POSIX semaphores.
I seem to recall Python's testsuite having a test asserting that POSIX
semaphores respond to interrupting signals, so it sounds like the
underlying problem is that Python is implementing some of its
primitives with a non-portable assumption. I'll take a look or see if
someone else from the community wants to.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-07 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 1:26 Joseph C. Sible
2018-09-07 2:16 ` Rich Felker
2018-09-07 4:09 ` Joseph C. Sible
2018-09-07 13:15 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2018-09-07 13:57 ` Joseph C. Sible
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