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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2015-03-30 19:59:21 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2015-03-30 19:59:21 (GMT)
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Issue #23485: select.epoll.poll() is now retried when interrupted by a signal
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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/select.rst6
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/select.rst b/Doc/library/select.rst
index 26e74c7..61f3835 100644
--- a/Doc/library/select.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/select.rst
@@ -329,6 +329,12 @@ Edge and Level Trigger Polling (epoll) Objects
Wait for events. timeout in seconds (float)
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+ The function is now retried with a recomputed timeout when interrupted by
+ a signal, except if the signal handler raises an exception (see
+ :pep:`475` for the rationale), instead of raising
+ :exc:`InterruptedError`.
+
.. _poll-objects:
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index 07776c1..a0d1bd9 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ Changes in the Python API
- :func:`os.open`, :func:`open`
- :func:`os.read`, :func:`os.write`
- - :func:`select.select`, :func:`select.poll.poll`
+ - :func:`select.select`, :func:`select.poll.poll`, :func:`select.epoll.poll`
- :func:`time.sleep`
* Before Python 3.5, a :class:`datetime.time` object was considered to be false