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Author jdemeyer
Recipients Rhamphoryncus, georg.brandl, gustavo, gvanrossum, jdemeyer
Date 2019-04-09.18:17:05
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> Back in 2007 the only POSIX-compliant type allowed for that was sig_atomic_t, anything else was undefined.

Fair enough, but having a non-atomic type is still much better than a completely wrong type. In other words, the requirement of fitting a file descriptor is more important than being atomic.
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