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Re: Issue #1586: Cancellation during gethostbyname() and connect()

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2004-07-03 02:05:03 CEST

kfogel@collab.net wrote:

>Josh Pieper <jjp@pobox.com> writes:
>
>
>> b) Temporarily disable the interrupt handler during possibly hanging
>> network operations. It could be tricky, because it's hard to tell
>> what could be allocated in pools that won't be cleaned up. This
>> also seems like a very naughty thing for a library to do.
>>
>> c) Make subversion multi-threaded and push off all possibly hanging
>> network operations into other threads. Very complicated, but I'm
>> including it for completeness.
>>
>> c) Do nothing... a user may need to use kill -9 in order to
>> interrupt svn if a network operation hangs.
>>
>>Are there any other options and/or opinions? I'm leaning towards the
>>last option, but I want to see if there are any other ideas or
>>objections.
>>
>>
>
>I think (b) may be feasible, actually.
>
>
It's not thread-safe, so you can't do it in the library.

-- Brane

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