Re: [Monotone-devel] mtn uninterruptible

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:46:52AM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There's a problem with 'mtn log', 'mtn update' (and possibly other commands): 
> They become uninterruptible sometimes. I am not sure what the exact 
> circumstances are, but if you e.g. start 'mtn log' and hit ctrl-c directly 
> afterwards, mtn keeps on printing 'mtn: interrupted' for every ctrl-c, but 
> will never stop. If you send it TERM signals, it says 'mtn: terminated by 
> signal', but won't stop either. Only a KILL really terminates the process. 

There's a bunch of discussion here:
  
http://colabti.de/irclogger//irclogger_log/monotone?date=2006-07-19,Wed&sel=134#l252

Tentative conclusion: trapping signals sucks and is impossible to get
right, we should just give up on doing it and leave -journal files
around occasionally.

-- Nathaniel

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