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has caused the report #730055,
regarding dblatex: Inifinite loop for Japanese <filename>
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) "Benoit Guillon" <[email protected]>
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Hi Benoît,
somehow I must have forgotten to forward Debian dblatex BTS report
#730055 [1] to you, which is over three years old by now. Sorry for
that.
However the problem still can be provoked with current dblatex: when the
called pdflatex process hangs (not talking about repeated pdflatex runs
here, e.g. "Rerun to get cross-references right", but about one call
running ad infinitum with high CPU usage), dblatex doesn't impose any
timeout on it, but just waits patiently, until the user gives up and
aborts it.
What about a (high) default timeout for subprocess calls, and aborting
with a corresponding message on timeout? That could be complemented by
the possibility to configure this timeout, which theoretically could
become necessary for very big documents.
You can reproduce the problem with the example document the bug reporter
did attach to the report.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/730055
Regards, Andreas
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