IOError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:57:29 -0300, <chadrik at gmail.com> escribió:

> i'm getting the same error when trying to read results from popen2
> within a pyQt window.  is this a threading issue? is my pyQt window
> responsible for interrupting the read?  i'm fairly new to python so
> i'm struggling to figure this out. can you recommend any possible
> methods of preventing this? for instance, could acquiring a thread
> lock before calling popen solve the problem?

I dont know pyQt but in general, blocking operations (like a syncronous  
read) can return EINTR when a signal arrives in the middle. Just retrying  
the operation would be enough; by example, if you have a read() inside a  
loop, just ignore the exception and continue.

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Gabriel Genellina