Signal Handling in Oil

Handling signals in Python exposes you to EINTR.

See PEP 475 -- Retry system calls failing with EINTR. We're backporting this work. That's the main purpose of the native/posixmodule.c fork (in addition to removing over 7,000 lines of unused code).

Signals Oil cares about:

• SIGWINCH -- to get notified about Window size changes
• ... TODO

Relevant Files

• demo/eintr.sh in the repository

Related Pages

• Difficulties With Unix Signals