On 12/29/2010 3:31 PM, gervaz wrote:
Hi all, I need to stop a threaded (using CTR+C or kill) application if
it runs too much or if I decide to resume the work later.
I come up with the following test implementation but I wanted some
suggestion from you on how I can implement what I need in a better or
more pythonic way.
You can't send signals to individual threads under CPython.
Even where the OS supports it, CPython does not. See
"http://docs.python.org/library/signal.html";
Nor can you kill a thread. All you can do is ask it
nicely to stop itself.
Even worse, sending control-C to a multi-thread program
is unreliable in CPython. See "http://blip.tv/file/2232410";
for why. It's painful.
John Nagle
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