On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:22:23 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Is there a way to catch SIGSTOP? > > In the strictest sense, no; SIGSTOP can't be caught. However, some > systems have SIGTSTP which is sent when you hit Ctrl-Z, which would be > what you're looking for.
That's exactly what I'm looking for, thanks. After catching the interrupt and doing whatever I need to do, I want to allow the process to be stopped as normal. Is this the right way? import signal, os def handler(signalnum, stackframe): print "Received signal %d" % signalnum os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGSTOP) # Hit myself with a brick. signal.signal(signal.SIGTSTP, handler) It seems to work for me (on Linux), but is it the right way? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list