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5.1 Operating System Utilities
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<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>int <b><tt id='l2h-156' xml:id='l2h-156' class="cfunction">Py_FdIsInteractive</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>FILE *<var>fp</var>, char *<var>filename</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return true (nonzero) if the standard I/O file <var>fp</var> with name
<var>filename</var> is deemed interactive. This is the case for files
for which "<tt class="samp">isatty(fileno(<var>fp</var>))</tt>" is true. If the global
flag <tt class="cdata">Py_InteractiveFlag</tt> is true, this function also returns
true if the <var>filename</var> pointer is <tt class="constant">NULL</tt> or if the name is
equal to one of the strings <code>'<stdin>'</code> or <code>'???'</code>.
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<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>long <b><tt id='l2h-157' xml:id='l2h-157' class="cfunction">PyOS_GetLastModificationTime</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>char *<var>filename</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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Return the time of last modification of the file <var>filename</var>.
The result is encoded in the same way as the timestamp returned by
the standard C library function <tt class="cfunction">time()</tt>.
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<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>void <b><tt id='l2h-158' xml:id='l2h-158' class="cfunction">PyOS_AfterFork</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Function to update some internal state after a process fork; this
should be called in the new process if the Python interpreter will
continue to be used. If a new executable is loaded into the new
process, this function does not need to be called.
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<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>int <b><tt id='l2h-159' xml:id='l2h-159' class="cfunction">PyOS_CheckStack</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return true when the interpreter runs out of stack space. This is a
reliable check, but is only available when <tt class="constant">USE_STACKCHECK</tt>
is defined (currently on Windows using the Microsoft Visual C++
compiler). <tt class="constant">USE_STACKCHECK</tt> will be
defined automatically; you should never change the definition in
your own code.
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<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>PyOS_sighandler_t <b><tt id='l2h-160' xml:id='l2h-160' class="cfunction">PyOS_getsig</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>int <var>i</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the current signal handler for signal <var>i</var>. This is a
thin wrapper around either <tt class="cfunction">sigaction()</tt> or
<tt class="cfunction">signal()</tt>. Do not call those functions directly!
<tt class="ctype">PyOS_sighandler_t</tt> is a typedef alias for <tt class="ctype">void
(*)(int)</tt>.
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<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>PyOS_sighandler_t <b><tt id='l2h-161' xml:id='l2h-161' class="cfunction">PyOS_setsig</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>int <var>i</var>, PyOS_sighandler_t <var>h</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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Set the signal handler for signal <var>i</var> to be <var>h</var>; return the
old signal handler. This is a thin wrapper around either
<tt class="cfunction">sigaction()</tt> or <tt class="cfunction">signal()</tt>. Do not call those
functions directly! <tt class="ctype">PyOS_sighandler_t</tt> is a typedef alias
for <tt class="ctype">void (*)(int)</tt>.
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