daemon app in win32

[Ben Hutchings]

Michael Bauer <Mike_B at T-Online.de> writes:

> Ben Hutchings wrote:
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> > Console applications can register to receive such notifications in the
> > same way they receive control-C notifications under *some* versions of
> > Windows.
> 
> Do you have any more details about this? Because i experienced that my app 
> does actually *not* receive the CTRL-Cs or similar i am pressing when i try 
> to cancel it "by hand"... (btw, this is win98)
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CPython is supposed to generate a KeyboardInterrupt exception in this
case.  If this doesn't work, Ctrl-Break might.  If your program has
stuck in a system function then the exception won't be thrown until
that returns.

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