Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 5:03 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: >>> Do you respect /etc/nsswitch.conf? >> >> No, but I don't need to. > > Ah, right. Until the day you're wrestling with "why doesn't /etc/hosts > apply to this program". Yep, you totally don't need nsswitch.
Don't you worry about my programs. >> In this discussion I was referring to the fact that you can interrupt >> a coroutine while that is generally not possible to do to a blocking >> thread. > > I'm not sure what you mean by a "blocking thread". Whether it's a > coroutine or not, you can't interrupt gethostbyname(); and whether > it's a coroutine or not, you CAN interrupt any syscall that responds > to signals (that's the whole point of EINTR). Please reread the original poster's question. It was about a blocking TCP listener call that another thread couldn't interrupt. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
