This was the discussion we had on IRC: 20:28 < pochu> hey jamiemcc. There are some reports about tracker-extract crashing. Since you said trackerd kills tracker-extract if it's taking a long time, I'm wondering whether it would be possible to check if the file is too long first and if it is not extract the metadata, so trackerd doesn't kill it and we don't get a crash report. What do you think? 20:29 < jamiemcc> pochu: no can do - the way it works is tracker-extract is given a timeout which the kernel terminates if it expires 20:29 < jamiemcc> so trackerd does not do the killing 20:29 < jamiemcc> its more a self destruct mechanism in tracker-extract 20:30 < pochu> hmm, I see 20:30 < pochu> still we get a crash report, which means more work for us :-) 20:30 < jamiemcc> pochu: cant you set LP to ignore tracker-extract? 20:30 < pochu> Nope. I could bug Martin Pitt, but he wont like the idea. 20:32 < pochu> Maybe if that timeout is a kernel *feature*, I could convince him to ignore them, but not only for tracker-extract, but for everything out there. 20:33 < pochu> I dont know whether it's possible for him to detect it, though. 20:33 < jamiemcc> well the kernel just sends the destruct signal 20:33 < jamiemcc> sigill 20:33 < jamiemcc> sigkill
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