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@pitrou pitrou commented Jul 1, 2017

  • Improve signal delivery

Avoid using Py_AddPendingCall from signal handler, to avoid calling signal-unsafe functions.

  • Remove unused function

  • Improve comments

  • Add stress test

  • Adapt for --without-threads

  • Add second stress test

  • Add NEWS blurb

  • Address comments @Haypo.
    (cherry picked from commit c08177a)

* Improve signal delivery

Avoid using Py_AddPendingCall from signal handler, to avoid calling signal-unsafe functions.

* Remove unused function

* Improve comments

* Add stress test

* Adapt for --without-threads

* Add second stress test

* Add NEWS blurb

* Address comments @Haypo.
(cherry picked from commit c08177a)
* bpo-30796: Fix failures in signal delivery stress test

setitimer() can have a poor minimum resolution on some machines,
this would make the test reach its deadline (and a stray signal
could then kill a subsequent test).

* Make sure to clear the itimer after the test
@pitrou pitrou merged commit 3024c05 into python:3.6 Jul 1, 2017
@pitrou pitrou deleted the backport-c08177a-3.6 branch July 1, 2017 17:12
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