Threads, signals and sockets (on UNIX)

[geoffbache]

> Twisted *should* be able to do this, as it uses non-blocking IO.
>
> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/

Thanks for the tip. I'll take a look if nobody has any better
suggestions.

It still seems to me that what I'm trying to do is essentially quite
simple, and shouldn't require
as large a tool as Twisted to fix it. Isn't Twisted basically for web
applications?

Geoff