[Python-ideas] IDEA: do not alter default SIGINT handling

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Sep 14 16:57:21 CEST 2009


Nick Coghlan writes:

 > If a user wants to kill it ungracefully, that's what Ctrl-Break is for.

Discussion of how to spell SIGKILL looks like bikeshed painting to me,
but the question of how to extend graceful interrupt behavior to C
modules looks worthy of an idea to me.

Is that too hard or too rare a need?



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