Re: Can't kill svn

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Andreas Krey <a.krey_at_gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> is there already a bug on this? I can't always get the svn client to
> stop using ^C. Mostly this seems to happen with slow network I/O, like,
> for reproduction:
>
> prompt> time svn checkout http://217.140.74.17/doesnotexist
> ^C^C^Csvn: OPTIONS of 'http://217.140.74.17/doesnotexist': could not
> connect to server (http://217.140.74.17)
>
> real 1m14.898s
> user 0m0.007s
> sys 0m0.006s
> prompt>
>
> I hit ^C shortly after hitting enter, but 1) svn doesn't stop
> and 2) doesn't even seem to care about the signal received.
>
> The only way to actually get rid of it is to ^Z and 'kill -9 %',
> but this then requires a cleanup occasionally (plus the prayer
> that the latter will work).
>
> Andreas
>

What release of Subversion and what is your operating system? Standard
network has a timeout of about 120 seconds, but depending on the OS, the
command may not be interrupt-able until that timeout.

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