Re: [Tracker] Killing run-away child processes

[Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>]

Le jeudi 16 novembre 2006 Ã 01:15 +0000, Jamie McCracken a Ãcrit :
> 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):


You said all... (patch included)


Laurent.

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