On 2006-03-29, Dale Strickland-Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> i have a program that works very similar to tail -f in Unix It
>> will need a Ctrl-C in order to break out of the program. I
>> wish to run this program using python (either thru os.system()
>> or some other subprocess modules) and how can i pass Ctrl-C to
>> this program to terminate it in python? thanks
>
> Isn't SIGINT the same as ctrl-c?
SIGINT is what the tty line discipline layer sends to the
attached processes when it sees a receive interrupt character
and canonical mode is enabled. By default the interrupt
character is ctrl-C.
> So something like
>
> import os
> os.kill(1234, 2)
>
> would send ctrl-c to process 1234.
That is, indeed, what the OP wants to do. Except there is no
ctrl-C involved. That code is doing what the tty line
discipline code does when _it_ see's a ctrl-C.
> If you just want the process to quit, you could probably just
> send it a SIGTERM, which is signal 15.
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