Re: [Simple-evcorr-users] shellcmd with timeout

2011-05-24 Thread Risto Vaarandi
On 05/23/2011 04:51 PM, Matthieu Pérotin wrote: Hi Risto, the solutions you list are fine with us. The only objections I may have are: - the shell only solution induce an additional fork, which is not necessary with a patch. It may be problematic in heavy loaded systems; - we are loosing

[Simple-evcorr-users] shellcmd with timeout

2011-05-20 Thread Matthieu Pérotin
Hi, we recently experienced an annoying problem with processes that, in some circonstances, would get stuck and never return. The fault here is clearly on the processes side, but one can never be sure that a process will return nicely... The consequence on SEC's side is that child processes

Re: [Simple-evcorr-users] shellcmd with timeout

2011-05-20 Thread Risto Vaarandi
On 05/20/2011 02:56 PM, Matthieu Pérotin wrote: Hi, we recently experienced an annoying problem with processes that, in some circonstances, would get stuck and never return. The fault here is clearly on the processes side, but one can never be sure that a process will return nicely... The