Message 335482 - Python tracker

Message335482

Author	vstinner
Recipients	SamB, foom, gregory.p.smith, jwilk, loewis, martin.panter, mwh, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, rnk, vstinner
Date	2019-02-14.00:06:50
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> A question that leads to is what _is_ the correct value. What do you think of using a short test program (ex: uses raise(SIGINT)) in ./configure to get the "default exit code" to define a constant, and then use the constant for exit() in Python? I dislike the idea of raising signals in general. The exact behavior of signals depends too much on the OS, it's hard to get it right. But having a configurable exit code looks safe and simple enough.

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> A question that leads to is what _is_ the correct value.

What do you think of using a short test program (ex: uses raise(SIGINT)) in ./configure to get the "default exit code" to define a constant, and then use the constant for exit() in Python?

I dislike the idea of raising signals in general. The exact behavior of signals depends too much on the OS, it's hard to get it right. But having a configurable exit code looks safe and simple enough.

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