Hi Sam: Two more things to the planned shellutils timeout feature:
1) Please make a nice test case for the new shellutils with threads, e.g. create a tmp shell script that would print start time, sleep for 15 seconds, and print end time, and check if you can kill it successfully with a 5 second timeout. This test will help us to identify suspicious platforms. 2) For CLI code, there should be no problem to switch to this new version by default. For mod_python code, it is probably safer to stick to the thread-less version, as I recall seeing some issues in the (distant) past. We can enable it progressively there. (And, ultimately, when we shall switch to the WSGI daemon mode, there should be no such problem.) Best regards -- Tibor Simko ** CERN Document Server ** <http://cds.cern.ch/>
