Richard Oudkerk added the comment: > These functions are compliant with POSIX standards and the return values > are actually useful, they return the previously set masks and handlers, > often are ignored but in complex cases it's good to know their previous > state.
Yes. But my point was that somebody might have used such a function as the initializer argument. The proposed change would break a program which does with Pool(initializer=os.nice, initargs=(incr,)) as p: ... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19185> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com