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Author	gregory.p.smith
Recipients	gregory.p.smith, gvanrossum, neologix, vstinner
Date	2013-12-02.21:46:16
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> > I believe that the libc and the kernel knows better than Python how to > restart a syscalls, than Python. I expect more reliable timeout, or > the kernel may avoid context switches (don't wake up the process). > See the man page i linked to, calls like select and poll with timeouts are not auto-restarted.

>
> I believe that the libc and the kernel knows better than Python how to
> restart a syscalls, than Python. I expect more reliable timeout, or
> the kernel may avoid context switches (don't wake up the process).
>

See the man page i linked to, calls like select and poll with timeouts are
not auto-restarted.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2013-12-02 21:46:16	gregory.p.smith	set	recipients: + gregory.p.smith, gvanrossum, vstinner, neologix
2013-12-02 21:46:16	gregory.p.smith	link	issue19850 messages
2013-12-02 21:46:16	gregory.p.smith	create