signal handling oddity

[Justin Johnson]

Hi,

I have an xmlrpc server and I'd like to be able to catch control-c and
cause the server to exit.  Without any special signal code it just keeps
running and doesn't handle control-c at all.  I tried adding code to
handle SIGINT (below).  What happens now is, I control-c and nothing
happens, but when the next xmlrpc request comes through, the service
exits, running stopService.  So the control-c is caught, but only when
the next request comes through.  Anyone know why this is?

Thanks.
-Justin

[snip]
def startService():
	# Make sure we can catch a Ctl-C to shutdown the service
	signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, stopService)
	# Startup the service.  Note, we specify our own request handler so that we can handle basic auth,
	# allowing us to password protect the service.  See myxmlrpc.py for more info.
	server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer((config.thisServer, config.portNumber), BasicAuthXMLRPCRequestHandler)
	server.register_instance(CCService())
	server.serve_forever()

def stopService(sigNum, stackFrame):
	print "Exiting... bye bye!"
	sys.exit()

if __name__ == '__main__':
	startService()
[/snip]