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  r84239 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-08-21 21:09:32 +0200 (sam., 21 août 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
  ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
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diff --git a/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c b/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
index d8c1e65..611dc8c 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
@@ -1661,6 +1661,11 @@
         self->write_pos += n;
         self->raw_pos = self->write_pos;
         written += Py_SAFE_DOWNCAST(n, Py_off_t, Py_ssize_t);
+        /* Partial writes can return successfully when interrupted by a
+           signal (see write(2)).  We must run signal handlers before
+           blocking another time, possibly indefinitely. */
+        if (PyErr_CheckSignals() < 0)
+            goto error;
     }
 
     if (restore_pos) {
@@ -1797,6 +1802,11 @@
         }
         written += n;
         remaining -= n;
+        /* Partial writes can return successfully when interrupted by a
+           signal (see write(2)).  We must run signal handlers before
+           blocking another time, possibly indefinitely. */
+        if (PyErr_CheckSignals() < 0)
+            goto error;
     }
     if (self->readable)
         _bufferedreader_reset_buf(self);