Kees Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! Any progress on incorporating this patch? I find it very > handy to have this patch installed so I can forcefully shutdown an > schroot.
I hope to get it in the next release. I've been using it for a few months, and now that etch is released it can go in. The one problem I would like to get fixed first, however, is the delay while killing processes, if there are no processes to kill. This makes the typical case of running schroot or ending a session wait for a good few seconds. I would like it to be ~instantaneous in the case no processes need killing. I think the while loop needs some optimisation, such as checking if the process has terminated so that it can break out of the loop early. I think simply repeating the readlink inside the loop would be sufficient. So instead of "while kill", so "while readlink", and then kill inside the loop. Another nice addition would be to print out which processes are being killed if in verbose mode. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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