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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clone hang prevention / timeout?
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 18:29:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160413222900.GA10011@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALyZvKwxE4T8-FmEYgPMgAFKLmeAY5f-y-mDL8S9twTb0umRaA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:49:19PM +0100, Jason Vas Dias wrote:

> Is there any option I can specify to get the clone to timeout, or do I manually
> have to strace the git process and send it a signal after a hang is detected?

Oh, one other thing you might consider, it something like "timeout" from
GNU coreutils, which puts a hard cap on the length of time a process can
run.

It's totally unaware of the state of the process, though, so if you
really do have a clone which takes an hour, it might very well kill it
at 99% complete. It has no mechanism for "gee, this process looks like
it hasn't done anything for 5 minutes".

I don't know offhand of a general tool for that.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-13 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-11 21:49 clone hang prevention / timeout? Jason Vas Dias
2016-04-12  8:01 ` Eric Wong
2016-04-13 22:24 ` Jeff King
2016-04-13 22:29 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-04-14 18:32   ` Jason Vas Dias
2016-04-30  9:04     ` Eric Wong

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