"Michael Langford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >I think Alan is exaggerating the danger of signal handlers.
Indeed, thats why I sent the follow up. They aren't *dangerous* but they can be inconsistent across OS. Plus some signals are wider in scope that the curent process (eg ISTR Stop-A on a Sun can be broadcast to all processes dependant on kernel settings) Also if a process is run under the cotrol of a parent process interfering with how that parent process deals with signals can result in inconsistent behaviour. So the signals and signal handling mechanism per se is not dangerous, simply that using them can create "strangeness" in a system which can be a devil to debug. Hopefully my other email clarified what I meant... Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
