Re: signal handling

solo turn <soloturn99@yahoo.com> writes:

> svn seems not to obey signal handling correctly. if you press
> "ctrl-c" it is possible to get an inconsistent working-copy state.
>
> maybe this is the same issue we discussed earlier in writing some
> change completely or not (to prevent also inconsistent states in
> cases of crashes or network timeouts).

Jon Trowbridge <jon@trowbridge.org> just gave an interesting
(non-original, he admits) suggestion regarding this. He suggested
that we create a custom signal handler that does the following things:

   - unregisters itself as the signal handler!
   - prints a warning to the user "Attempting cleanup; hit Cntrl-C
     again to immediately abort()."
   - begins doing cleanup-ish things.

Sounds kinda nifty to me (which is *not* to say, "I plan to begin
implementing this now").

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Received on Tue Aug 20 16:46:54 2002