Re: [Tracker] Killing run-away child processes

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Jamie McCracken wrote:
>
> > 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. 
>
> oops wrong way round - should be main thread uses for extraction with 
> another created thread to perform the exit on timeout


code should look like:

static void
timeout_thread (void)
{
        /* sleep for 10 secs */
        g_usleep (G_USEC_PER_SEC * 10);

        /* die on timeout */
        exit (1);

}


at start of tracker-extract :

g_thread_create ((GThreadFunc) timeout_thread, NULL, FALSE, NULL):


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