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"""Use a Windows event to interrupt a child process like SIGINT.
The child needs to explicitly listen for this - see
ipython_kernel.parentpoller.ParentPollerWindows for a Python implementation.
"""
import ctypes
def create_interrupt_event():
"""Create an interrupt event handle.
The parent process should call this to create the
interrupt event that is passed to the child process. It should store
this handle and use it with ``send_interrupt`` to interrupt the child
process.
"""
# Create a security attributes struct that permits inheritance of the
# handle by new processes.
# FIXME: We can clean up this mess by requiring pywin32 for IPython.
class SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES(ctypes.Structure):
_fields_ = [ ("nLength", ctypes.c_int),
("lpSecurityDescriptor", ctypes.c_void_p),
("bInheritHandle", ctypes.c_int) ]
sa = SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES()
sa_p = ctypes.pointer(sa)
sa.nLength = ctypes.sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES)
sa.lpSecurityDescriptor = 0
sa.bInheritHandle = 1
return ctypes.windll.kernel32.CreateEventA(
sa_p, # lpEventAttributes
False, # bManualReset
False, # bInitialState
'') # lpName
def send_interrupt(interrupt_handle):
""" Sends an interrupt event using the specified handle.
"""
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetEvent(interrupt_handle)