[IPython-dev] Subtle ls bug :(

[Brian Granger]

Fernando,

Will this be fixed with your new pexpect based version, or do we still
have an issue on Windows that we need to fix?

Cheers,

Brian

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Evan Patterson <epatters at enthought.com> wrote:
> A summer or two ago I was writing some socket code and ran into
> precisely this problem. When a Unix process receives a signal and is
> the middle of a call that can potentially block forever (reading from
> a pipe in our case), it will interrupt the kernel-level system call
> involved. The solution usually employed is to simply restart the call
> if it is interrupted. I think the following should be sufficient:
>
> import errno
>
> def read_no_interrupt(f):
>     while True:
>         return f.read()
>    except IOError, err:
>        if err.errno != errno.EINTR:
>            raise
>
> Evan
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can you both try the following:
>>
>> Just keep typing ls return.  Every so often I get:
>>
>> In [28]: ls
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> IOError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/6.2/Doc/<ipython
>> console> in <module>()
>>
>> /Users/bgranger/Documents/Computation/IPython/code/ipython/IPython/zmq/zmqshell.pyc
>> in system(self, cmd)
>>     61         sys.stderr.flush()
>>     62         p = Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
>> ---> 63         for line in p.stdout.read().split('\n'):
>>     64             if len(line) > 0:
>>     65                 print line
>>
>> IOError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call
>>
>> This only seems to show up when running the qt GUI mode.  I think this
>> one will be fun to debug :)
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> --
>> Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor of Physics
>> Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
>> bgranger at calpoly.edu
>> ellisonbg at gmail.com
>



-- 
Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
bgranger at calpoly.edu
ellisonbg at gmail.com