gangesmaster wrote: > that's not a question of design. i just want a child-thread to kill the > process. in a platform agnostic way. >
the clean kill is the 'KeyboardInterrupt'. your code finalizations are at least done corretly. thats also raised on SIGINT by default. so thread.interrupt_main() is that thing to go for on this level - lets say on mid level. killing hard (SIGKILL etc ) is low level. it should be OS-specific, as Python should not make itself inconsistent a good consistent killing on high level can only be done by inter-thread communication - as shown in this recipe above. even if a KeyboardInterrupt is thrown, like with .. #raises SystemExit inside my_thread cq.call(sys.exit, wait=1, raise_exception=2) .. its thrown exactly app-deterministic a callqueue.receive() time. so you have all levels and tools available. If you really miss something, then I'd still say, the design question should be raised. -robert PS: SystemExit / sys.exit (doc: "Exit from Python"!?) is misleading/historic. Its in fact almost "ThreadExit". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
