Bo Peng wrote: > Dear list, > > I have not done a thorough test, but it occurs to me that > > 1. python code can be interrupted by Ctrl-C. > 2. A C module, if I add a main() function and run independently, can be > interrupted by Ctrl-C. > 3. If I load the C module in python and run, the program will not > respond to Ctrl-C interruption. I have to kill python explicitly. > > If this is a known behavior or just a special case of mine? Any fix to > it? I am using python 2.3.4 under Redhat EL4 with gcc 3.3.4.
I fear it is a known behavior and not easy to fix. See the module signal docs: """ Although Python signal handlers are called asynchronously as far as the Python user is concerned, they can only occur between the ``atomic'' instructions of the Python interpreter. This means that signals arriving during long calculations implemented purely in C (such as regular expression matches on large bodies of text) may be delayed for an arbitrary amount of time. """ So - no workaround here, unless you patch python. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
