Cannot interrupt offlineimap 6.3.4 from keyboard

[Daniel Shahaf]

Sebastian Spaeth wrote on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:51:08 +0200:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:38:37 -0400, Tony E. Bennett <tony.e.bennett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm in the process of upgrading from v6.0.3.   The new version
> > ignores ^C.  In fact, it can only be killed with 'kill -9 PID'.
> > 
> > Platform is OSX.  I've tried both python 2.6.1 and python 2.6.6.
> > Have also tried with and without explicit 'socktimeout = 60'.
> > No difference.
> > 
> > Is this a known issue?   Something to do w/ 'ui' perhaps?
> 
> I do CTRL-C all the time and it works fine here. One area where things

I usually use ^\ rather than ^C, but either works.  v6.3.4 blinkenlights.

(^\ == SIGQUIT, ^C == SIGINT, -9 == SIGKILL)

> can hang is while attempting to read from the IMAP server, as the
> underlying imaplib2 doesn't seem to handle or honor CTRL-C. The ui could
> have something to do with it, as I usually don't test blinkenlights
> extensively. I am happy with TTYUI.
> 
> It can only be killed with -9 implies it never exits for you and hangs
> somewhere? Or does "only" ctrl-c not work?
> 
> Debugging this is a bit tough without further information as it plainly
> works here.
> 
> Sebastian



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