Re: [PATCH] Detect EOF during propmt

"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato@collab.net> writes:

> Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:
>
>> Philip Martin wrote:
>> > David Wilson <dw@botanicus.net> writes:
>> >
>> >> $ svn co https://china.botanicus.net/svn/cdr_mysql < /dev/null
>> > If you are running svn from a crontab then using --non-interactive
>> > will cause it to fail rather than spin.
>>
> The --non-interactive options tells Subversion to never prompt for
> auth information. In this case, if Subversion doesn't prompt, it
> doesn't hang.

The original bug does not involve hanging, rather, the client is
running flat-out using CPU to continually ignore eof and allocate
memory. If the client process isn't killed it will probably bring the
box running it to a grinding halt.

-- 
Philip Martin
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