Avoid race condition with Popen.send_signal

[Jérôme]

Tue, 3 Jan 2012 17:24:44 +0100
Jérôme a écrit:

> > Too many libraries do too many questionable things with signal handlers
> > so I find it much safer and easier just to avoid the damn things whenever
> > possible.
> 
> My small program _seems to_ work with the dirty hacks I already exposed.
> Yet, I'd rather stay on the safe and easy side, especially in a future
> bigger program. Therefore, I'm still interested in a better way to proceed.
> 
> Is there another way to tell beep (or sox) to stop before the end of the
> beep ?
> 
> AFAIK, the only way to stop it on console is to feed it Ctrl+C. Should I use
> communicate() for that ? How ? Apparently, the following does not work :
> 
> 	process.communicate("\C-c")
> 

I've been reading more and what I wrote now appears to me as silly, as
Ctrl+C, as I understand, is just a way to send SIGINT...

I guess I'll have to do with the signal handling, then.

But I think I'm beggining to understand what you (Adam Skutt) meant. This is
just as dirty as using Ctrl+C to stop beep when using the console, as opposed
to using a software that would wait for a specific keypress to stop (in which
case I could use communicate()).

-- 
Jérôme