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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2013-10-06 19:23:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2013-10-06 19:23:26 (GMT) |
| commit | 7c679514a506c485240e917c52e49a59e02bd122 (patch) | |
| tree | ef6cbede16a367416692dc6f3c289de43953f6f8 /Doc | |
| parent | 6d7d6cf76ec090ef776e70e6591215c8213e012e (diff) | |
| parent | c377fe2b968f8e1a5f276063a41cd4df75d4af2f (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/signal.rst b/Doc/library/signal.rst index 2a472fe..84e2836 100644 --- a/Doc/library/signal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/signal.rst @@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ at a later point(for example at the next :term:`bytecode` instruction). This has consequences: * It makes little sense to catch synchronous errors like :const:`SIGFPE` or - :const:`SIGSEGV`. + :const:`SIGSEGV` that are caused by an invalid operation in C code. Python + will return from the signal handler to the C code, which is likely to raise + the same signal again, causing Python to apparently hang. From Python 3.3 + onwards, you can use the :mod:`faulthandler` module to report on synchronous + errors. * A long-running calculation implemented purely in C (such as regular expression matching on a large body of text) may run uninterrupted for an |