Most common usage

from signal import SIGINT, SIGTERM
from pysigset import suspended_signals

with suspended_signals(SIGINT, SIGTERM):
    # Signals are blocked here..
    pass
# Any pending signal is fired now..

Also available

sigaddset(*args)
    int sigaddset(sigset_t *set, int signum)

sigdelset(*args)
    int sigdelset(sigset_t *set, int signum)

sigemptyset(*args)
    int sigemptyset(sigset_t *set)

sigfillset(*args)
    int sigfillset(sigset_t *set)

sigismember(*args)
    int sigismember(const sigset_t *set, int signum)

sigpending(*args)
    int sigpending(sigset_t *set)

sigprocmask(*args)
    int sigprocmask(int how, const sigset_t *set, sigset_t *oldset)

sigsuspend(*args)
    int sigsuspend(const sigset_t *mask)

Similar tools

python-signalfd provides access to sigprocmask and signalfd. Its advantage is access to signalfd. Its disadvantage is a compilation requirement.

pysigset has a pythonic interface and requires only ctypes access to libc.so.6 or libSystem.B.dylib.

Changes

Copyright

Copyright 2013-2021, Walter Doekes (OSSO B.V.)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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