On Jan 12, 2014, at 4:42 PM, johnnadre <johnna...@zoho.com> wrote: > > ---- On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:03:24 -0800 <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote > ---- > >> On 09:01 pm, johnna...@zoho.com wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to exit my application immediately when CTRL+C is pressed, >>> however reactor hangs when there are running threads. >>> Some of these threads have blocking I/O, so I can't simply set a >>> variable or wait for them to terminate. An example application would >>> be: >> >> Python threads (being plain old operating systems; for example, POSIX >> threads) aren't generally interruptable. You could try exiting the >> entire process using `os._exit`.
Well, there's always pthread_kill, now exposed as os.pthread_kill on Python 3.3, but ... don't do that. Nothing good will come of it. >> This is the case whether you're using Twisted or not. > > Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. If you need to use os._exit, your application probably has a bug :-). (Not to say you should never use it, but any time you use it you should be simultaneously looking into why you need to.) -glyph
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