I am trying to write a unix client program that is listening to a socket, stdin, and reading from file descriptors. I assign each of these tasks to an individual thread and have them successfully communicating with the "main" application using synchronized queues and a semaphore. The problem is that when I want to shutdown these child threads they are all blocking on input. Also, the threads cannot register signal handlers in the threads because in Python only the main thread of execution is allowed to do so.
Any suggestions?