On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 19:32 -0700, CAI Qian wrote: > Correct. That is one of situations of bad CTRL-C response. I was trying > to simulate a network failure or slow connection. It could be quite > normal in reality. > Great, then please file this against python. $ ipython In [1]: import socket In [4]: socket.gethostbyname('www.phy.duke.edu') ^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C--------------------------------------------------------------------------- KeyboardInterrupt Traceback (most recent call last) the socket call to gethostbyname does let you do an interrupt in the middle of it - or at least - not at all times. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum