SIGPROF does not work on Windows about vprof HOT 6 CLOSED

Apparently SIGPROF isn't present on Windows:

On Windows, signal() can only be called with SIGABRT, SIGFPE, SIGILL, SIGINT, SIGSEGV, or SIGTERM. A ValueError will be raised in any other case. Note that not all systems define the same set of signal names; an AttributeError will be raised if a signal name is not defined as SIG* module level constant.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/signal.html

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Thanks for reporting!
I am aware that some of the signals do not exist in Windows, but current implementation of flame graph profiling should work under Windows Subsystem for Linux.
I haven't done any extensive testing on Windows though.

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Why close? Do the flame graphs work on Windows now?

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Flame graphs don't work on Windows, because signal module is partially supported on Windows and I can't do much about that.

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@nvdv A note warning about this problem could be good.

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Why not just ignore the c config, throw a warning and go on?

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