some system calls and signal will interrupt poll, making event loop stops and fails to react events and keepalive message from libvirt. adding handling EINTR to poll to make it more robust Signed-off-by: lvroyce <lvroyce(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; --- examples/domain-events/events-python/event-test.py | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/examples/domain-events/events-python/event-test.py b/examples/domain-events/events-python/event-test.py index 96dc268..b446c21 100644 --- a/examples/domain-events/events-python/event-test.py +++ b/examples/domain-events/events-python/event-test.py @@ -188,7 +188,13 @@ class virEventLoopPure: sleep = (next - now) / 1000.0 debug("Poll with a sleep of %d" % sleep) - events = self.poll.poll(sleep) + try: + events = self.poll.poll(sleep) + except select.error, e: + self.runningPoll = False + if not e.errno in (errno.EINTR, errno.EAGAIN): + raise + return # Dispatch any file handle events that occurred for (fd, revents) in events: