From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Subject: Re: timeout chpst -L
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:45:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060214084509.24951.qmail@125e08fe97c020.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060213201807.GF6585@home.power>
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:18:07PM +0200, Alex Efros wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 06:30:54PM +0200, Alex Efros wrote:
> > Is there exists some standard utility to run other process with timeout?
> > ulimit isn't suitable because it can only limit used CPU time, while I'm
> > speaking about real time.
>
> I've just discovered `tryto`. Sadly, but looks like there some race
> condition bug in it when tryto used to run some process which exit
> very quickly. I've tried to run `tryto chpst -l`, noticed strange
> results and moved to more simple examples like `tryto true` (see
> details below).
> powerman@home ~/tmp $ for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo "i=$i"; tryto -v -t 2 bash -c 'true'; done
> i=1
> tryto: warning: child "bash" timed out. sending TERM...
> tryto: warning: child "bash" not terminated. sending KILL...
> tryto: fatal: child timed out, giving up.
Yes, it's a race, the patch below should help. Thanks, Gerrit.
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Index: src/tryto.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/socklog/src/tryto.c,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 tryto.c
--- src/tryto.c 6 Feb 2005 11:36:50 -0000 1.8
+++ src/tryto.c 13 Feb 2006 20:42:13 -0000
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
taia_now(&now);
taia_uint(&deadline, timeout);
taia_add(&deadline, &now, &deadline);
+ timeout =0;
for (;;) {
int iopausefds;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-14 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-13 16:30 Alex Efros
2006-02-13 20:18 ` Alex Efros
2006-02-14 8:45 ` Gerrit Pape [this message]
2006-02-14 10:23 ` Alex Efros
2006-02-14 10:36 ` Gerrit Pape
2006-02-14 11:01 ` Alex Efros
2006-02-14 11:21 ` Gerrit Pape
2006-02-14 11:30 ` Alex Efros
2006-02-14 11:36 ` Gerrit Pape
2006-02-14 11:54 ` Alex Efros
2006-02-14 12:39 ` Gerrit Pape
2006-02-14 12:53 ` Alex Efros
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