Terry J. Reedy 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 question rather
New submission from Mark Florisson :
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. Perhaps an other thread c