Re: [Tracker] Killing run-away child processes
- From: Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>
- To: Edward Duffy <eduffy gmail com>
- Cc: Tracker List <tracker-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [Tracker] Killing run-away child processes
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:51:59 +0000
Edward Duffy wrote:
Text filtering, metadata extraction, and thumbnail generation are all
handled out of process so they can't crash trackerd. However these
processes are called with g_spawn_sync and there's no gaurentee they
will come back.
Here's a patch that will set SIGALRM for these external processes, it
uses the child_setup callback function, so there's no need for every
possible child process to set its own alarm.
so we get back a SIGALRM signal which we dont currently handle after 30
secs?
dont we need a way to kill these external processes if they timeout?
(kinda tricky without the pids although we could execute "killall -9
tracker-extract" though that wont do for the other types and is a bit
hacky!)
Another way to do this is within tracker-extract with the extraction
performed in another thread with the main thread being a timer that
kills itself if it timeouts. We could also have a tracker-filter program
to do likewise with text filters ( and tracker-thumb too) - it would be
cleaner but do you fancy doing the work?
--
Mr Jamie McCracken
http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/
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