[issue8021] sys.exit() doesn't execute inside a signal handler while blocked inside an try/except

[David Schere]

David Schere <dschere at arinc.com> added the comment:

sys.exit() does not behave the way a C programming thinks. It raises an exception. 

I'm probably not the first person to get this 'gotcha'

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status: open -> closed

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