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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Jul 30 09:42:14 CEST 2006

Tony Nelson schrieb:

Hmm, OK, darn, thanks. MSWindows does allow users to press Ctl-C to send a KeyboardInterrupt, so it's just too bad if I can't find a way to test it from a script.

You can use GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent to send Ctrl-C to all processes that share the console of the calling process.

BTW, I picked SIGALRM because I could do it all with one thread. Reading POSIX, ISTM that if I sent the signal from another thread, it would bounce off that thread to the main thread during the call to kill(), at which point I got the willies. OTOH, if kill() is more widely available than alarm(), I'll give it a try, but going by the docs, I'd say it isn't.

Indeed, alarm should be available on any POSIX system.

Regards, Martin

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