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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-05-08 00:03:15 (GMT)
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Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.
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@@ -131,6 +131,10 @@ signal
* :func:`~signal.sigpending`: examine pending functions ;
* :func:`~signal.sigwait`: wait a signal.
+* The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte instead of
+ a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to wait more
+ than one signal and know which signals were raised.
+
Optimizations
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