feature request: mock --timeout

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 12:50:11PM -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
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> Matt Domsch wrote:
> > I'd like to make a feature request for mock: the ability for it to
> > determine a job has taken too long and kill it.  mock --timeout N (with N
> > in minutes) is the UI I'm picturing.
> > 
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> > I've been doing these mass rebuilds for a while.  Every so often we'll
> > wind up with a package with the halting problem - it continues to run,
> > or not, but it doesn't ever finish building either.  Ever.  Several
> > days later, it's still going, but not making progress.
> > 
> > Sure, some jobs, like the kernel, openoffice, glibc, etc. can take a
> > good number of hours.  But even those don't run for days.  The latest
> > culprits was a few perl modules that ran for >2 days with no end in
> > sight.
> > 
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> File an RFE BZ on it and I'll look at it.

I have some python code from another project that does exactly this. I
can drop it in. I'll send a patch for review.
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Michael