Handling kill signals

[Ulrich Petri]

"Gary Robinson" <grobinson at transpose.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> For a daemon I'm writing, it would be very good if I could handle a kill
> signal sent out by the operating system during shutdown.
>
> But when I try to set up a handler, python rejects it:
>
> >>>> import signal
> >>>> def x(parm1, parm2):
> > ...     pass
> > ...
> >>>> signal.signal(signal.SIGKILL, x)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > RuntimeError: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> >>>> signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, x)
> > 0
> >>>>
>
> IOW, signal.signal accepts SIGHUP but not SIGKILL. How can I get it to
> accept SIGKILL?
>
> Or is there some other way I can enable my script to perform some cleanup
> when it's killed?
>
> (A handler assigned with atexit.register() doesn't seem to get called when
> the script is killed by the OS during shutdown.)
>

Though i get no error when trying to catch it (expectedly) doesn't work.
But to solve your problem you might want to catch the SIGTERM since IMHO its
sent by all linux(-alike) systems on shutdown before the SIGKILL signal...

HTH

Ciao Ulrich