<p>Yes, at least in python2, that is a problem. The thing is, that our main thread needs to be able to be interrupted by signals such as Ctrl-C.</p>
<p>This is function threadutils.py:exitnotifymonitorloop<br>
As described in the comment, we need a timeout in that .get() call or Ctrl-C will never be catched (and we could potentially freeze forever without timeout). <a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue1360">http://bugs.python.org/issue1360</a><br>
On the other hand, a timeout will cause Python to wake up repeatedly (every 50ms if I remember correctly). I think it won't wake up if no timeout was specified.</p>
<p>Apparently this was fixed in python 3.2 so, we might be able to improve this in a Python3 world.</p>
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