Providing/passing argument to signal handler

Question

Can I provide/pass any arguments to signal handler?

/* Signal handling */
struct sigaction act;
act.sa_handler = signal_handler;
/* some more settings */
         


        

Answer 1

You can use a signal handler which is a method of a class. Then that handler can access member data from that class. I'm not entirely sure what Python does under the covers here around the C signal() call, but it must be re-scoping data?

I was amazed that this works, but it does. Run this and then kill the process from another terminal.

import os, signal, time

class someclass:
    def __init__(self):
        self.myvalue = "something initialized not globally defined"
        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, self.myHandler)
    def myHandler(self, s, f):
        # WTF u can do this?
        print "HEY I CAUGHT IT, AND CHECK THIS OUT", self.myvalue


print "Making an object"
a = someclass()

while 1:
    print "sleeping.  Kill me now."
    time.sleep(60)