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Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM?

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Am 12.11.15 um 07:14 schrieb Marko Rauhamaa:
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>:
>
>> The cross-platform 3.4 asyncio module has some functions with
>> timeouts.
>
> Even that doesn't forcefully interrupt an obnoxious blocking function
> call like
>
>     time.sleep(10000)

A blocking call - granted. But what happens in a blocking loop, i.e.

for i in range(10000000000000000000000000):
	pass

?

My understanding of async is that it creates an event loop. In which 
case the loop has no chance to run within a block of code that computes 
anything, is that correct? Or does it hook into the interpreter and is 
able to interrupt the program between bytecodes?

> I'm thinking the only portable way is to run a watchdog process with
> subprocess or multiprocessing.

What about a thread which calls exit() after the timeout? Does that 
forcefully kill the whole process?

	Christian

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cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-11 16:16 +0000
  Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-11 18:30 +0200
    Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-11 17:06 +0000
      Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-11 20:03 +0200
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-11 22:42 +0000
      Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-11 19:42 -0500
  Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-11 20:37 -0500
    Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-12 08:14 +0200
      Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-12 07:43 +0100
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 18:37 +1100
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-12 05:15 -0500
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 22:38 +1100
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-12 09:01 -0500
      Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-12 07:22 +0000
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-12 10:15 +0200
    Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-12 06:58 +0000
  Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-11-12 16:20 +1100

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