ctrl-c and os.system problem

[Maik Hertha]

Noom Knews wrote:

>I have a simple program like this
>
>os.system("ls -lR / > /tmp/ls.out")
>print "end"
>
>When I press ctrl-c, the "end" message is still print.
> I'd like to terminate the whole process when pressing
>ctrl-c instead of just "end".
>
>I tried to catch the signal already but can't catch
>the SIGINT or anything else at all during the
>os.system call.   This does not work either
>
>try:
>   os.system("ls -lR / > /tmp/ls.out")
>   print "end"
>except:
>   print "get all exception"
>
>This will keep printing "end" when ctrl-c is pressed
>too. I think this could be os.system problem. If I use
>other statement instead of os.system, the program
>works as I expected.
>
>This was tried on Redhat Linux with python 1.5.2
>
works on python 2.2

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