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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:52:36 +1000
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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On 30Sep2015 23:56, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote:
>In a message of Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:30:59 +1000, Cameron Simpson writes:
>>Most likely the Ctrl-C interrupts whatever system call is hanging, causing it
>>to return (failed, probably with errno EINTR). And the python program resumes
>>because the OS system call has returned.
>
>Shiva Upreti needs to post the current code, but last time I read it
>the problem was that control-C is a KeyboardInterrupt, which the
>program was catching, and then continuing the loop.

Indeed.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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