Joining threads but allowing signals to main thread?

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Thursday 11/1/2007 03:43, Lloyd Zusman wrote:

>   while threading.activeCount() > 1:
>       time.sleep(0.001)
>
>   sys.exit(0)
>
>Is there any way to allow my program to respond to signals without
>having to busy-wait in the main thread?

Don't worry too much, this is *not* a busy wait, because you use 
sleep. You can use a longer sleep, it will be terminated by any 
signal. But not too long, or the check for activeCount() will be 
delayed in excess. (I use sleep(1) usually but your needs may be different)


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	

	
		
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