[Twisted-Python] signalfd

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Wed Nov 17 10:10:01 MST 2010


On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> One more piece seems available:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/python-atfork/


Nope, that's not a "real" atfork: it only monkey-patches python's os.fork() function, so it doesn't catch any fork done by C code. So it's not good enough. (but of course, as mentioned previously, pthread_atfork itself isn't good enough either).

See also a comment I wrote on lwn.net recently:
http://lwn.net/Articles/415684/

James



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