Blocking ctrl-c to os.popen() or os.system()

[Michael Hudson]

sandeep182 at hotmail.com (Sandeep Gupta) writes:

> I am executing a command from python via os.popen().  While the
> command is executing, if I type ctrl-c, the command receives the
> interrupt.  I would like to block the ctrl-c from the command and I've
> tried the following:
> 
> 1)Using python's signal module to ignore SIGINT.  This causes python
> to ignore SIGINT, but a ctrl-c that is typed during the popen() call
> still goes to the command.

That's surprising, to me at least.  I thought the exec* functions left
SIG_IGN signal destinations alone.  Does popen reset them?  The linux
manpage doesn't give any indication of doing so.

Cheers,
M.

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