killing a script

[Steven D'Aprano]

Hans Mulder wrote:

> On 9/09/11 11:07:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Sure enough, I now have to hit Ctrl-C repeatedly, once per invocation of
>> script.py. While script.py is running, it receives the Ctrl-C, the
>> calling process does not.
> 
> You misinterpret what you are seeing: the calling process *does* receive
> the ctrl-C, it just chooses to ignore it. 
>
> This is documented behaviour of os.system. 

Documented where? Neither the on-line documentation nor the function
docstring mentions anything about it that I can see:

http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/os.html#os.system

>>> help(os.system)
Help on built-in function system in module posix:

system(...)
    system(command) -> exit_status

    Execute the command (a string) in a subshell.




-- 
Steven