Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Thanks for the detailed analysis, Charles-François.
> Finally, I think that the documentation should be rephrased: Yes, I think so. > Furthermore, under Linux 2.6 and NPTL, getpid() returns the main thread > PID even from another thread. Yes, those threads belong to the same process. But as mentioned, signals are a rather fragile inter-process communication device; just use a specific file descriptor. And if you still wanna use signals, there's set_wakeup_fd(): http://docs.python.org/library/signal.html#signal.set_wakeup_fd ---------- assignee: -> georg.brandl components: +Documentation nosy: +georg.brandl, pitrou, tim_one priority: -> normal versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.4, Python 2.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5315> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
