In article <4af50316$0$1610$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > >I'm using pySerial to read from a serial port. One thread reads from >the port, with no timeout. Another thread handles output and other >tasks. This works fine until I want to shut down the program. I can't >reliably break the program out of the read when it's waiting. On >Windows, closing the serial port will abort the read, but that seems to >have no effect on Linux. > >I know, I could put a timeout on the read and handle all those null >returns. Is there a better way?
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