From 981f87b00fe464fe284055b541a715a4aca1d60d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: h3ndr1k <hendrik.fritsch@web.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:49:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add 'wait and cooperative exit' handling for SIGINT
This allows compatible shells to stop script execution when
the user sends SIGINT.
Only tested on Ubuntu Linux
---
youtube_dl/__init__.py | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index e1bd67919..3a52c3e11 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -478,7 +478,13 @@ def main(argv=None):
except SameFileError:
sys.exit('ERROR: fixed output name but more than one file to download')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
- sys.exit('\nERROR: Interrupted by user')
+ print('\nERROR: Interrupted by user')
+ # 'wait and cooperative exit' handling of SIGINT
+ # this signals our parent that we exited because of SIGINT
+ # the compatible parent shell can then stop script execution
+ import signal
+ signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
+ os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGINT)
__all__ = ['main', 'YoutubeDL', 'gen_extractors', 'list_extractors']