[Twisted-Python] sigchld

[Jason Rennie]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

> On Python 2.5 and earlier you won't be able to get Twisted's SIGCHLD
> handler using signal.getsignal.
>

We're also moving to python 2.6 (the change is really Debian 5 to Debian 6).
 Should it would work in 2.6?


> What sort of things do your signal handlers do?
>

IIRC, the main thing is to shut down the web server (cherrypy) we're running
in parallel with twisted.  We also have some disk-caching for stateful
signals which needs to ensure the cache file is up-to-date.

Cheers,

Jason
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