On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:01, Justin Karneges <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 10:15:10 AM MinRK wrote: > > > Is this a python peculiarity regarding signal handling? How are people > > > doing > > > clean shutdowns on ctrl-c with python? > > > > It's a general Python issue. Python + Threads + Signals = mess. > > > > From the signal doc <http://docs.python.org/library/signal.html>: > > > > only the main thread can set a new signal handler, and the main thread > will > > be the only one to receive signals (this is enforced by the > > Python signal module, even if the underlying thread implementation > supports > > sending signals to individual threads) > > Bummer. Poller and non-blocking writes it is, I guess... > > If you are just looking for clean shutdown, you can terminate the Context from the main thread when it is interrupted, and then blocking calls in other threads will raise ZMQError(ETERM). For example: https://gist.github.com/1720387 -MinRK
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