fix signal handling in wait() on calls to stop()

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets | #11286
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | 

``wait()`` throws an exception when the process was terminated by a signal. This should not happen when the termination was requested by calling the ``stop()`` method (for example, inside a callback which is passed to ``wait()``).
@romainneutron I added an additional commit. If that's what you had in mind, I'll drop the first commit.