Signal Handler ignored on Windows NT

[Gordon McMillan]

Ken Pier writes:

> We are using signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, handler) to set a
> signal handler for ControlC interrupts.  This works on UNIX
> (Solaris2.6) and on NT if our program is interrupted during
> time.sleep().  However, if it is interrupted during a select
> call, the handler is called on UNIX but not on NT.
> 
> Particulars: python1.5.2 on Sun Solaris2.6 and the compiled
> version out of py152.exe on NT 4.0, Service Pack 5.
> 
> Advice?

If you read the MSVC docs on signals, you'll find that you 
have very little hope of getting ^C to act as it does on Unix. 
Windows actually starts a thread to listen for ^C, and ends 
your process for you. Supposedly there's a way of interfering 
in this, but I've never gotten it to work.

- Gordon