Hello everyone,

I have a problem with a threaded program: it frequently hangs on sys.exit.

The problem is that my program uses threads which in turn use paramiko library, which itself is threaded.

I try to gracefully close the threads (below), but it doesn't always work, if paramiko calls happen to be at stage of negotiating ssh connection or smth similar.

The only workable solution I have is a program sending itself SIGKILL, which makes it terminated by OS (I think so).

Is there any way to brutally close the threads? I know that normally that should not be done, but shutdown when you don't care about writing out to disk is the only situation where it doesn't apply.

def ctrlchandler(signal, frame):
    print
    print ENDC + "Terminating on Ctrl-C, closing threads for:",
    while queue:
        for ip, th in queue:
            print ip,
            try:
                lock.acquire()
                th.abort = True
                lock.release()
            except RuntimeError:
                pass
            queue.remove((ip,th))
    print
    pid = os.getpid()
    print "Finished closing threads."
    # suicide - it's the only way of preventing frequent hangup on sys.exit
    os.kill(pid, SIGTERM)
    os.kill(pid, SIGKILL)
    sys.exit(0)

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