[Twisted-Python] redefine signal handlers

[Reza Lotun]

Hi Gabriel,

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Gabriel Rossetti
<gabriel.rossetti at arimaz.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to run some cleanup code when my Twisted app receives a signal
> (SIGINT/SIGBREAK/SIGTERM).
>
> I saw that "_SignalReactorMixin" sets the handlers and that "ReactorBase"
> defines the default handlers : ...
> My question is how can I redefine them, other than monkey patching or
> inheriting the reactor and over-riding them (which I'd rather not do since
> some of my code uses the windows reactor when on windows since I was having
> problems with windows event)? Is there such a mechanism, something like
> setDefaultSig("SIGINT, mySigIntHandler)?

One easy way to do it is to reactor.run(installSignalHandlers=False)
and then manually install your own signal handlers in the usual way
(using the python signal library).

Cheers,
Reza


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