Commit e85ef7a7 authored by Julien Palard's avatar Julien Palard Committed by GitHub

bpo-28795: Signal documentation: Fix misleading statement. (GH-13121)

parent 5765ecf7
......@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ The :func:`signal.signal` function allows defining custom handlers to be
executed when a signal is received. A small number of default handlers are
installed: :const:`SIGPIPE` is ignored (so write errors on pipes and sockets
can be reported as ordinary Python exceptions) and :const:`SIGINT` is
translated into a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` exception.
translated into a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` exception if the parent process
has not changed it.
A handler for a particular signal, once set, remains installed until it is
explicitly reset (Python emulates the BSD style interface regardless of the
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