Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app

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"James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> writes:

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> Needless to say, on a test Windows machine AF_UNIX is not present. The
> only cross-platform option, therefore, seems to be to use each
> subthread's select()s to monitor two AF_INET sockets: the one to the
> client and a control one from the master thread. I would seem to need
> IP socket pairs between the master thread and the subthreads. If the
> master thead receives a shutdown signal it will send a shutdown
> command to each subthread.

There is socket.socketpair() on Windows too (since Python 3.5)

  https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket.socketpair
  http://bugs.python.org/issue18643

Note: you could use select() to handle signals in the main thread too
(even on Windows since Python 3.5) if you use signal.set_wakeup_fd()

  https://docs.python.org/3/library/signal.html#signal.set_wakeup_fd

It is known as a self-pipe trick

  http://www.sitepoint.com/the-self-pipe-trick-explained/

Look at *asyncio* source code, to see how to get a portable
implementation for various issues with signals. Some issues might still
be opened e.g., Ctrl+C behavior

  http://bugs.python.org/issue24080

Here's how to combine SIGCHLD signal handling with tkinter's event
loop

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30087506/event-driven-system-call-in-python

SIGCHLD, createfilehandler() are not portable but the code demonstrates
possible set_wakeup_fd() issues and their solutions (O_NONBLOCK, dummy
signal handler, SA_RESTART, signal coalescing).

On threads and signals in CPython

  http://bugs.python.org/issue5315#msg102829

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Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 18:17 +0100
  Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-18 11:23 -0700
    Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 20:09 +0100
      Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-18 22:50 +0200
        Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 10:56 +0100
  Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-09-18 23:40 +0300
  Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 07:40 +1000
    Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 10:49 +0100
      Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 20:14 +1000
        Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 11:48 +0100
          Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 20:59 +1000
  Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-18 17:48 -0400
  Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 08:09 +1000
  Re: Shutting down a cross-platform multithreaded app Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 02:56 +0300

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