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Align native signal controls and handler dispatch - #9683

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Summary

Align native signal controls and ordinary handler dispatch with CPython 3.15:

  • Reuse shared PyTime conversion for bounded nanoseconds and ceiling-to-microsecond timer conversion, preserving argument order and platform time_t checks.
  • Preserve errno and strerror through the existing ItimerError/OSError builder.
  • Share exact-integer SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN classification across validation, startup, and dispatch. Retain main-interpreter checks and signed alarm/default-handler conversion.
  • Reuse ArgIntoBool for wakeup-fd keyword truthiness before fd conversion and signed pointer-sized socket conversion on Windows.
  • Preserve inherited ignored or foreign native SIGINT handlers at startup. Release replaced Python handlers outside the table borrow before their destructors can run.
  • Pass the current complete Python frame to signal callbacks through the existing frame helper. Invoke registered handlers normally so an object that loses its call reports TypeError instead of silently losing the signal.

Reference: CPython 3.15.0 signal module and complete-frame selection.

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  • Independent source review against the exact CPython release passed, including conversion precedence, negative timer normalization, errno construction, platform branches, handler destruction/reentry, callable-int-subclass precedence, and complete-frame ownership.
  • Formatting, whitespace and normal commit hooks passed.
  • Latest head: cargo clippy --locked --offline -p rustpython-vm --all-targets --features threading -- -D warnings passed.
  • Latest head: cargo clippy --locked --offline -p rustpython-vm --all-targets passed with the existing no-thread Arc warning at _ctypes/base.rs:2246.
  • No RustPython runtime, CPython behavior probes, host signal/timer/mask/wakeup mutation, full workspace/C-API suites or cross-platform execution was performed. Windows and 32-bit paths remain source-reviewed only.
  • No test, Lib, workflow or marker edits.

Scope

This does not redesign process-global signal ownership across independently embedded runtimes, signal teardown, interrupt_main's producer semantics, or missing-handler diagnostics. In particular, this does not resolve or retire the shutdown interrupt_main expected failure. Ordinary dispatch and startup changes add no new native signal-handler operations or cross-thread frame reads.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Python signal handlers now receive the interrupted execution frame, and errors from non-callable handlers are reported instead of silently discarding the signal.
    • Signal registration and initialization now handle supported signals and existing dispositions more consistently.
    • Interval timers accept higher-precision time values and provide clearer operating-system error messages.
    • Wakeup file descriptor and Windows socket arguments now follow Python’s integer conversion rules more consistently.

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Signal handling now passes the interrupted frame to registered handlers. Signal registration and wakeup-FD handling apply updated validation and conversion rules. Interval timers use revised argument conversion and OS error reporting.

Changes: Signal handling and related APIs

Layer / File(s) Summary
Signal dispatch with the interrupted frame
crates/vm/src/signal.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_signal.rs
Signal dispatch skips absent, None, and recognized disposition handlers. It calls registered handlers with the signal number and a clone of the interrupted frame. The default interrupt handler now takes an i32 signal number.
Signal and wakeup-FD validation
crates/vm/src/stdlib/_signal.rs
Signal handling checks supported values and main-thread and main-interpreter restrictions. Handler disposition inspection, initialization, and wakeup-FD argument conversion use updated rules.
Alarm and interval-timer conversion
crates/vm/src/stdlib/_signal.rs
alarm accepts signed seconds. setitimer converts Python timer values with ceiling rounding and defaults a missing interval to zero. Timer errors use OS error information when available.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to f7d1b

No actionable merge-blocking defect is established. An optional regression test would improve confidence that signal handlers receive the interrupted Python frame.

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@youknowdot youknowdot changed the title Align native signal control conversions with CPython 3.15 Align native signal controls and handler dispatch Nov 4, 2026
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check if this is necessary after #9563

youknowdot and others added 4 commits November 6, 2026 22:47
Reuse the shared time and truth-value converters, preserve timer errno,
and match native signal handler and wakeup-fd validation order and domains.

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Retain the checked time_t conversion on narrower hosts and bind socket fields only on Windows.

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Keep ignored and foreign native SIGINT handlers during initialization and
release replaced Python handlers outside the table borrow. Share exact
native disposition classification and pass the current complete frame to
normal signal callback dispatch, retaining errors when a registered
object ceases to be callable.

No signal ownership, shutdown, or interrupt_main producer redesign is
included. Existing expected-failure markers remain pending runtime tests.

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Keep retained owners outside lock scopes and preserve callback-sensitive release ordering.

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Nitpick comments: 1

crates/vm/src/signal.rs: 1

169-171: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value

Test the interrupted frame passed to signal handlers.

The synchronous test ignores frame, so it can pass with None or an unrelated frame. Consider raising a signal from a nested Python call and comparing the callback frame with that call’s frame.

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Review comment at @crates/vm/src/signal.rs around lines 169 - 171:
Update the synchronous signal test to verify the frame passed to the handler,
rather than ignoring it; trigger the signal from a nested Python call and assert
the callback receives that call’s frame, not None or an unrelated frame. Use the
signal dispatch path around handler.call as the implementation context and
preserve the existing callback behavior.

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Review comments at @crates/vm/src/signal.rs:
- Around line 169-171: Update the synchronous signal test to verify the frame
passed to the handler, rather than ignoring it; trigger the signal from a nested
Python call and assert the callback receives that call’s frame, not None or an
unrelated frame. Use the signal dispatch path around handler.call as the
implementation context and preserve the existing callback behavior.

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