Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > > 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.
Well, to make sure the object is valid, you can just ensure instances can't be created from Python (for example, make tp_new raise an error), and that the internal state can't be mutated. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18869> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
