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Author pitrou
Recipients benjamin.peterson, exarkun, gregory.p.smith, loewis, marcin.bachry, neologix, pitrou, python-dev, schmichael, spiv, tseaver, vstinner
Date 2011-05-07.19:38:05
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> pending_signals-3.patch:
>  - don't check for pending signals in sigwait()
>  - pthread_kill() doc: it is not a good idea to say that pthread_kill() with signum=0 can be used to check if a thread identifier is valid => such test does crash (SIGSEGV) on my Linux box. I changed the doc to say that it can be used to check if a thread is still running (which is different).
>  - add a dedicated test for sigpending()
>  - doc: explain how to get a thread identifier for pthread_kill()
>  - don't compile pthread_kill() without threads: you cannot get a valid thread identifier without the _thread module
> 
> I think that the patch is ready to be commited. Anyone for a last
> review? (antoine, neologix?)

It looks good to me.
It's very nice to have all these extra functions :)
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2011-05-07 19:38:07pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, loewis, gregory.p.smith, spiv, exarkun, tseaver, vstinner, benjamin.peterson, marcin.bachry, schmichael, neologix, python-dev
2011-05-07 19:38:06pitroulinkissue8407 messages
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