Message 196399 - Python tracker

Message196399

Author	neologix
Recipients	neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date	2013-08-28.18:24:39
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> Or perhaps we could enhance the signal module so that getsignal() return something (i.e. a specific object) which can restore the C signal handler. That would be better than special-casing faulthandler, IMHO. Yes, I thought about that, see http://bugs.python.org/msg146560 The only problem I saw at that time is that we must make sure that the object is indeed valid, otherwise the signal handler can jump to an invalid address, and boom.

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> Or perhaps we could enhance the signal module so that getsignal() return something (i.e. a specific object) which can restore the C signal handler. That would be better than special-casing faulthandler, IMHO.

Yes, I thought about that, see http://bugs.python.org/msg146560
The only problem I saw at that time is that we must make sure that the
object is indeed valid, otherwise the signal handler can jump to an
invalid address, and boom.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-08-28 18:24:40	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, pitrou, vstinner, r.david.murray
2013-08-28 18:24:40	neologix	link	issue18869 messages
2013-08-28 18:24:39	neologix	create