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Matthias Drochner wrote:
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> leftover of another script executed previously, or perhaps
> related to logging) which don't block the signal in question,
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IIRC POSIX, this is OK - any thread not blocking the signal can receive it.

>
> (This might be technically not the fault of NetBSD's libpthread.
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hm.. did you try to report this to the Python mailing list? I think it's
more appropriate place. why patch kernel if the SW running on it is broken?

[and I'm pretty, although not 100%, sure that NetBSD is _not_ at fault
here].

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> Using threads and signals to processes together is just a bad idea.
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indeed :)

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