Ctrl-C not working

[urso]

when running an Observer either with run() or start(), the program can't be stopped e.g. by pressing Ctrl-C and Signal-handlers installed (for e.g. SIGINT or SIGTERM) are ignored.

[jibleo]

I can confirm this pretty annoying issue.
I am using macfsevents (great binding!) in a launchd agent and the SIGTERM signal sent by 'launchctl unload' is ignored. This causes launchctl to send a SIGKILL signal after its timeout in order to stop the agent.
The problem is that 'launchctl unload' is fired from a UI and the about-10-sec timeout makes things look very unresponsive.

[jachin]

The way I've found around this issue right now is Ctrl-\

I'm trying to figure out a way to wrap it so I can control it the way I want to.

[thomasst]

To solve this problem in your app, catch KeyboardInterrupt in your main thread. Do something like this:

except KeyboardInterrupt, e:
    observer.unschedule(stream)
    observer.stop()
    observer.join()

[renard]

Any new about that issue?

I got something like:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        obs = Observer()
        obs.start()
        str = Stream(callback, live, file_events=True)
        obs.schedule(str)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print "Going to quit"
        obs.unschedule(str)
        obs.stop()
        obs.join()
        sys.exit(0)

And I still cannot terminate the program but but hitting Ctrl-\