On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:18:58PM -0400, Dave Horner wrote:
> Hanging perl process during test of Farabi and others.
>
> running cpan from cmd.exe
> - cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v2.05)
> cpan> install Farabi
> ...
> t/00-compile.t ....... ok
> t/01-basic.t .........
> -----------------------------------------
>
> The process never returns.
>
> Anyways, when smoking and running scripts with perl on windows sometimes I
> come to my unattended automated machine locked and blocking. No fun.
> I kill the most childish process and it continues; failed.
I find that it happens seldom enough that I can just bounce on C-c.
People who prefer a bit more automation would presumably have some kind
of automatic time-out. Here's the bare bones of how to do that in the
shell. I'm sure you can adapt it to however you're smoking:
#!/bin/bash
function long_running_process() {
sleep 5
echo I didn\'t get killed
}
long_running_process&
CHILDPID=$!
sleep 2
kill $!
$ time ./foo.sh
real 0m2.008s
...
Note the & when long_running_process is invoked, so it's forked off. The
parent then times out and kills the child before it finishes.
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