Socket read weirdness

[Casey Crabb]

> I don't know for sure, but I'd bet that your app is receiving the
> signal SIGWINCH (window change) and that's interrupting the call. You
> might try something like:
> 
> signal.signal(signal.SIGWINCH,signal.SIG_IGN)

Tried that, and catching just about every other signal, sending it to 
a custom signal handler which simply prints out that a signal was sent:
No dice, signal is not getting sent...