Re: [Tracker] Killing run-away child processes

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

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.

thanks - have now added to cvs

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