Peter Hansen wrote: > Cantankerous Old Git wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I have a server that right now runs infinitely. I'd like to make it >>> die after some amount of time. >> >> >> The proper way to do it is to have the timer set a flag that the other >> threads check regularly. The threads can then clean up and exit asap. >> >> The dirty way, which can leave corrupt half-written files and other >> nasties, is something like sys.exit(). > > > sys.exit() won't help you if your server is running in the main thread, > nor if your server thread is not marked as a daemon, but that does raise > another possibility. Instead of doing serve() in the main thread, spawn > off a child thread to do the serving, and call setDaemon(True) on it. > Then the _main_ thread can do sys.exit() and the server thread will be > terminated (somewhat messily perhaps) -- even if it is blocked in an > accept() call or some other external blocking call.
I assume you know that I actually meant System.exit(). Why do you think that won't help? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
