Exscript.util.sigint module

A class for catching SIGINT, such that CTRL+c works.

class Exscript.util.sigint.SigIntWatcher

Bases: future.types.newobject.newobject

This class solves two problems with multithreaded programs in Python:

• A signal might be delivered to any thread and
• if the thread that gets the signal is waiting, the signal is ignored (which is a bug).

This class forks and catches sigint for Exscript.

The watcher is a concurrent process (not thread) that waits for a signal and the process that contains the threads. Works on Linux, Solaris, MacOS, and AIX. Known not to work on Windows.

__init__()

Creates a child process, which returns. The parent process waits for a KeyboardInterrupt and then kills the child process.

kill()

watch()