[Idle-dev] IDLEfork / Windows

[Guido van Rossum]

Kurt:

The only defense I have is that AFAIK the situation is no better in
the old IDLE.

I'm not very happy with running the program in a thread, since the
main thread is somewhat special.  I'd be willing to have a separate
thread that somehow watches RPC for a ^C equivalent.  Maybe we could
emulate a signal call at the C level -- the machinery for calling the
Python-level signal handler could be reused.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)