[Zope-Coders] Signal forwarding

[Guido van Rossum]

> Yikes, but it's so useful. :-(  Packing is an administrative function
> and admins can grok signals. They can't really grok setting up a shell
> script to call "manage_pack", though.

Hm?  I thought packing was usually done via the ZMI?

> Obviously it shouldn't block.  Would it be acceptable for it to kick off
> a thread?

I don't know.  Can you (portably!) start a thread in a signal handler?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)