signal-handling

That's it. Just wondering about the difference between SIGSTOP and SIGTSTP. jlliagre Both signals are designed to suspend a process which will be eventually resumed with SIGCONT . The main differences between them are: SIGSTOP is a signal sent programmatically (eg: kill -STOP pid ) while SIGTSTP (for sig nal - t erminal stop ) may also be sent through the tty driver by a user typing on a keyboard, usually Control - Z . SIGSTOP cannot be ignored. SIGTSTP might be. /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/signum.h #define SIGSTOP 19 /* Stop, unblockable (POSIX). */ #define SIGTSTP 20 /* Keyboard stop

In python 2.6 under Linux, I can use the following to handle a TERM signal: import signal def handleSigTERM(): shutdown() signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, handleSigTERM) Is there any way to setup a handler for all signals received by the process, other than just setting them up one-at-a-time? You could just loop through the signals in the signal module and set them up. for i in [x for x in dir(signal) if x.startswith("SIG")]: try: signum = getattr(signal,i) signal.signal(signum,sighandler) except (OSError, RuntimeError) as m: #OSError for Python3, RuntimeError for 2 print ("Skipping {}".format(i)

I have this decorator: def timed_out(timeout): def decorate(f): if not hasattr(signal, "SIGALRM"): return f def handler(signum, frame): raise TimedOutExc() @functools.wraps(f) def new_f(*args, **kwargs): old = signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, handler) signal.alarm(timeout) try: result = f(*args, **kwargs) finally: signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, old) signal.alarm(0) return result new_f.func_name = f.func_name return new_f return decorate The code only does anything on linux, though, as on windows, there is no SIGALRM . What would be the simplest way to have this code work in Windows as well? It's