Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] KeyboardInterrupt not being caught in top_block

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:53:28PM +1000, Kyle Zhou wrote:
> Thanks Eric,
> I am using GNU Radio git depository installed a month ago.
> tried on Cygwin 1.7.5+WinXP and OSX 10.6.3+Macbook, both behaved the same.
> I'll try ubuntu tomorrow when I have access to another PC.
> Ctrl+C exits the program but not caught by except.

Kyle,

Are you trying to set a handler for a signal somewhere in your code?
If so, it's unlikely to work.  In general signals and threads don't
play together well.  A bit of googling will show you the mine field.

If you're trying to catch a std::exception, that should work fine.

Eric