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Re: Slightly offtpic: why svn stubbornly refuses to listen to ctrl-c?!?
On 01/15/2010 05:05 PM, Adam Butcher wrote:
>>> If you're on a posix-compatible have you tried using SIGQUIT (CTRL-\ or
>>> CTRL-4) instead of SIGINT?
>>>
>> Or kill -9 of course, but beware; Vincent LeFevre reported sandboxes
>> corrupted beyond anything 'svn cleanup' could repair in one of the links I posted in another reply.
> Sure, this is a last resort. I only mentioned SIGQUIT because its
> 'typeable' so you wouldn't have the annoyance of going to a new shell
> (or suspending svn), finding the pid and killing it (or use killall).
> That's providing svn doesn't implement the same best-effort cancellation
> checkpoints for SIGQUIT also of course.
>
Thanks to everybody who replied. At least now I know that the issue is
known and it *is* an issue ;)
By the way, I find a bit funny the cautionary remarks about kill -9,
etc: what else one can do when it gets unrecoverably stuck? Just kill it
and hope for the best, I say.
Paolo.