Consider using Cysignals

[LasseBlaauwbroek]

As described in capnproto/capnproto#1542, Pycapnp is having issues with catching signals while executing long-running capnp C++ code, because Python's signal handlers are only executed outside of external code.

Other libraries also seem to have this issue, hence the existence of cysignals. I propose that any possibly-long-running C++ code (particularly blocking C++ code) is wrapped in

    from cysignals.signals cimport sig_on, sig_off
    sig_on()
    try:
        # C++ code
    finally:
        sig_off()

[kentonv]

Unfortunately I don't think this is so simple. sig_on() apparently uses setjmp() and then the signal handler longjmp()s back to it. This only really works if the C++ code has not done any RAII initialization before the longjmp(). Otherwise, all the necessary cleanup will be skipped. This would lead to a lot of problems when calling into Cap'n Proto / KJ code.