On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGSTOP) # Hit myself with a brick.
>
>
> It seems to work for me (on Linux), but is it the right way?
And - if your system has SIGTSTP, it'll have SIGSTOP and this will be
how it works. (Windows has neither
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGSTOP) # Hit myself with a brick.
>
Sometimes there'll be a raise() function but it's going to do the same
thing. Yep, that would be the way to do it.
ChrisA
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:22:23 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> 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 b
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano
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.
http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Job
I'd like to perform a task when the user interrupts my application with
Ctrl-Z on Linux. I tried installing a signal handler:
import signal
def handler(signalnum, stackframe):
print "Received signal %d" % signalnum
signal.signal(signal.SIGSTOP, handler)
But I got a RuntimeError:
Tracebac
