can't stop yum, must use kill -9

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:36 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> Fred New wrote:
> 
> >Marius Andreiana wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I don't know if it's a new issue, but I first noticed this in fc4t2.
> >>When yum is downloading packages, it can't be stopped pressing ctrl+c
> >>(it will switch to another mirror and continue).
> >> 
> >>    
> >>
> >I appreciate this behavior since some mirrors can be real dogs.
> >If ctrl+c killed yum, how could I indicate to yum that I wanted
> >to try a different mirror?
> >  
> >
> What about CTRL+C having the default behaviour (stopping the 
> application) and something else being used to tell yum to change mirror 
> (something like CTRL+M , for example)?
> 

we've tracked it down - the problem with ctrl-c being grabbed is
happening inside the python socketmodule - in the c code - so being able
to change this from yum is not going to happen. 
-sv