Commit a7e3e2cd authored by Tal Einat's avatar Tal Einat

Issue #20182: converted the signal module to use Argument Clinic

parent b9b9d205
......@@ -219,21 +219,21 @@ The :mod:`signal` module defines the following functions:
:func:`sigpending`.
.. function:: pthread_kill(thread_id, signum)
.. function:: pthread_kill(thread_id, signalnum)
Send the signal *signum* to the thread *thread_id*, another thread in the
Send the signal *signalnum* to the thread *thread_id*, another thread in the
same process as the caller. The target thread can be executing any code
(Python or not). However, if the target thread is executing the Python
interpreter, the Python signal handlers will be :ref:`executed by the main
thread <signals-and-threads>`. Therefore, the only point of sending a signal to a particular
Python thread would be to force a running system call to fail with
:exc:`InterruptedError`.
thread <signals-and-threads>`. Therefore, the only point of sending a
signal to a particular Python thread would be to force a running system call
to fail with :exc:`InterruptedError`.
Use :func:`threading.get_ident()` or the :attr:`~threading.Thread.ident`
attribute of :class:`threading.Thread` objects to get a suitable value
for *thread_id*.
If *signum* is 0, then no signal is sent, but error checking is still
If *signalnum* is 0, then no signal is sent, but error checking is still
performed; this can be used to check if the target thread is still running.
Availability: Unix (see the man page :manpage:`pthread_kill(3)` for further
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