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by kngl 4470 days ago
Using a signal may also have side effects on your program.
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It doesn't really send a signal to your program. It just sets flags inside cpython to make it think so. (pendingbusy and pendingcalls_to_do, to be precise)
why not just contribute to pyrasite to have this different method of injection instead of building out a new project? what is the tradeoff here?