Sending ^C to Python subprocess objects on Windows

Question

I have a test harness (written in Python) that needs to shut down the program under test (written in C) by sending it ^C. On Unix,

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Answer 1

I have been trying this but for some reason ctrl+break works, and ctrl+c does not. So using os.kill(signal.CTRL_C_EVENT, 0) fails, but doing os.kill(signal.CTRL_C_EVENT, 1) works. I am told this has something to do with the create process owner being the only one that can pass a ctrl c? Does that make sense?

To clarify, while running fio manually in a command window it appears to be running as expected. Using the CTRL + BREAK breaks without storing the log as expected and CTRL + C finishes writing to the file also as expected. The problem appears to be in the signal for the CTRL_C_EVENT.

It almost appears to be a bug in Python but may rather be a bug in Windows. Also one other thing, I had a cygwin version running and sending the ctrl+c in python there worked as well, but then again we aren't really running native windows there.

example:

import subprocess, time, signal, sys, os
command = '"C:\\Program Files\\fio\\fio.exe" --rw=randrw --bs=1M --numjobs=8 --iodepth=64 --direct=1 ' \
    '--sync=0 --ioengine=windowsaio --name=test --loops=10000 ' \
    '--size=99901800 --rwmixwrite=100 --do_verify=0 --filename=I\\:\\test ' \
    '--thread --output=C:\\output.txt'
def signal_handler(signal, frame):
  time.sleep(1)
  print 'Ctrl+C received in wrapper.py'

signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)
print 'command Starting'
subprocess.Popen(command)
print 'command started'
time.sleep(15) 
print 'Timeout Completed'
os.kill(signal.CTRL_C_EVENT, 0)