[issue6162] What should happen to signals when the main thread dies?

2010-07-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: I think there has been some discussion of signals, in the last year, on the py-dev list (== gmane.comp.python.devel), which is archived both on the python site and gmane.org. Signals seem to be a somewhat nasty subject. Since you only raise a

[issue6162] What should happen to signals when the main thread dies?

2009-06-01 Thread Mark Florisson
New submission from Mark Florisson markflorisso...@gmail.com: As signals are only delivered to the main thread, what should happen when the main thread dies? Currently, the signal mask is not unset in any other thread, so when the main thread dies, all signals set in the mask are simply ignored.