[Yum-devel] [UG] ctrl-c not doing what is expected

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Apr 17 15:14:14 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 15:06 +0200, Gijs Hollestelle wrote:
> On 4/16/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >  Have we ever gotten to the bottom of the ctrl-c skips-to-next-mirror
> > instead of exiting, problem? I'm asking b/c if there's a way to make it
> > just exit like folks expect I'd be in favor of it, I think.
> 
> I agree it should just exit, but I don't think this will be easy to
> fix because there is no way to distinguish between the user pressing
> ctrl-c and a network error. In both cases python throws a a
> socket.error which grabber.py catches.
> 

Here's the odd thing.

check urlgrabber out of its cvs then run:

python ./grab -d url://to/some/file

and ctrl-c it

you get the KeyboardInterrupt exception.

so its getting through to somewhere.

I'm looking for it now
-sv





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