Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> On 10/14/2016 04:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>> Py_AddPendingCall is safe to call from a signal handler? That would
>>> be ... quite remarkable.
> Yes, I believe it is.
> https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4b71e63b0616aa2a44c9b13675e4c8e3c0157481/Python/ceval.c#L422
I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but that code is a joke. Just
silently fail if you can't get the lock?
regards, tom lane