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.
