[Python-Dev] Testing Socket Timeouts patch 1519025 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Jul 30 23:42:54 CEST 2006

Tony Nelson schrieb:

You can use GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent to send Ctrl-C to all processes that share the console of the calling process. [...] Martin, your advice is usually spot-on, but I don't always understand it. Maybe using it here is just complicated.

This was really just in response to your remark that you couldn't find a way to send Ctrl-C programmatically. I researched (in the C library sources) how SIGINT was generated (through SetConsoleCtrlHandler), and that let me to a way to generate

I didn't mean to suggest that you should use GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent, only that you could if you wanted to.

I expect that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent() can be called through the ctypes module, though that would make backporting the test to 2.4 a bit more difficult.

Well, if there was general utility to that API, I would prefer exposing it in the nt module. It doesn't quite fit into kill(2), as it doesn't allow to specify a pid of the target process, so perhaps it doesn't have general utility. In any case, that would have to wait for 2.6.

Regards, Martin

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