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bug#8938: make timeout and CTRL-C
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#8938: make timeout and CTRL-C |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:54:34 +0100 |
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On 07/07/11 12:13, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>
>> On 07/07/11 11:05, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> On 06/07/11 23:37, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> OK I've added --foreground to support this.
>>>> Note it still maintains a separate timeout
>>>> monitor process to return 124 on timeout etc.
>>>
>>> Updated wording and NEWS entry now included.
>>> I'll push this later today.
>>
>> I'm also thinking of pushing this as a separate patch,
>> which will set WIFSIGNALED for the timeout process itself.
>> This will make timeout more transparent and when doing
>> Ctrl-C from make for example, printing "[target] Interrupt"
>> rather than "[target] Error 130".
>>
>> diff --git a/src/timeout.c b/src/timeout.c
>> index a686225..ea4af18 100644
>> --- a/src/timeout.c
>> +++ b/src/timeout.c
>> @@ -341,7 +361,19 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
>> if (WIFEXITED (status))
>> status = WEXITSTATUS (status);
>> else if (WIFSIGNALED (status))
>> - status = WTERMSIG (status) + 128; /* what sh does at least. */
>> + {
>> + int sig = WTERMSIG (status);
>> + if (!timed_out)
>> + {
>> + /* exit with the signal flag set, but avoid core files.
>> */
>> + if (setrlimit (RLIMIT_CORE, &(struct rlimit) {0,0}) == 0)
>> + {
>> + signal (sig, SIG_DFL);
>> + raise (sig);
>> + }
>> + }
>> + status = sig + 128; /* what sh returns for signaled
>> processes. */
>
> I like the idea.
> Note that setrlimit is not available on mingw or Beos, according to
> gnulib's doc/posix-functions/setrlimit.texi, so you might want to test
> for its existence. Otherwise, this change would induce link failure on
> those systems.
Good catch. I'll wrap in
#if HAVE_SETRLIMIT && defined RLIMIT_CORE
#endif
> At first I was worried that this improvement would be dependent on
> setrlimit success, but it appears that it cannot fail for the arguments
> used here. I wonder if it's better to assert that non-failure -- or
> maybe just issue a warning, so that if it happens we'll be more likely
> to get a bug report about it, rather than have users endure a subtle
> difference in behavior.
I'll issue a warning.
cheers,
Pádraig.