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threading.Condition.wait() is not catching SIGTERM

From Sangeeth Saravanaraj <sangeeth.saravanaraj@gmail.com>
Subject threading.Condition.wait() is not catching SIGTERM
Date 2014-07-03 15:45 +0530
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.11450.1404382552.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Hi All, 

I have the following code which when executed waits to be interrupted by SIGINT, SIGTERM or SIGQUIT. When an object is initialized, it creates a threading.Condition() and acquires() it! The program then registers the signal handlers where notify() and release() is called when the above mentioned signals are received. After registering the signal handlers, it calls wait() on the condition variable and block.

When I tried to stop the program with Ctrl-C, its did not respond. IOW, the _signal_handler() method did not get called.  

# start

from signal import signal, SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT
from threading import Condition

class A:
    def __init__(self):
        self._termination_signal = Condition()
        self._termination_signal.acquire(blocking=0)

    def _signal_handler(self, signum, frame):
        print "Received terminate request - signal = {0}".format(signum)
        del frame
        self._termination_signal.notify()
        self._termination_signal.release()
        return

    def register_and_wait(self):
        signal(SIGINT, self._signal_handler)
        signal(SIGTERM, self._signal_handler)
        signal(SIGQUIT, self._signal_handler)
        print "Waiting to be interrupted!"
        self._termination_signal.wait()      # control blocks here!
        print "Notified!!"

def main():
    a = A()
    a.register_and_wait()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

# end

What am I doing wrong?! 

Thank you,

Sangeeth

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threading.Condition.wait() is not catching SIGTERM Sangeeth Saravanaraj <sangeeth.saravanaraj@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 15:45 +0530
  Re: threading.Condition.wait() is not catching SIGTERM Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-07-03 06:19 -0400
    Re: threading.Condition.wait() is not catching SIGTERM Sangeeth Saravanaraj <sangeeth.saravanaraj@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 15:57 +0530
    Re: threading.Condition.wait() is not catching SIGTERM Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 20:33 +1000

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