[issue12040] Expose a Process.sentinel property (and fix polling loop in Process.join())

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue12040] Expose a Process.sentinel property (and fix polling loop in Process.join())

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 568a3ba088e4 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #12040: Expose a new attribute `sentinel` on instances of http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/568a3ba088e4 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue12040] Expose a Process.sentinel property (and fix polling loop in Process.join())

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Just a detail, but with the last version, select is retried with the > full timeout (note that the signal you're the most likely to receive > is SIGCHLD and since it's ignored by default it won't cause EINTR, so > this shouldn't happen too often). Indeed, it

[issue12040] Expose a Process.sentinel property (and fix polling loop in Process.join())

Charles-François Natali added the comment: Just a detail, but with the last version, select is retried with the full timeout (note that the signal you're the most likely to receive is SIGCHLD and since it's ignored by default it won't cause EINTR, so this shouldn't happen too often). By the w

[issue12040] Expose a Process.sentinel property (and fix polling loop in Process.join())

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: That looks better. :) btw, that eintr_retry utility probably deserves to be in a more prominent place in the stdlib but I don't have a good suggestion as to where at the moment. I believe similar code exists in many places in the code base. If it is not goi

[issue12040] Expose a Process.sentinel property (and fix polling loop in Process.join())

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Here is a new patch addressing Gregory's comment (retry select() on EINTR). -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21983/process_sentinel2.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue12040] Expose a Process.sentinel property (and fix polling loop in Process.join())

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[issue12040] Expose a Process.sentinel property (and fix polling loop in Process.join())

New submission from Antoine Pitrou : This patch exposes a new read-only property of multiprocessing.Process objects, named "sentinel". As the doc indicates, this is a file descriptor undex Unix, and a handle under Windows. Both are suitable for flexible polling/waiting with the appropriate OS