Re: [arch-general] Why does pacman 3.4 reacts so slow to SIGINT?

2010/7/8 Lukas Grässlin :

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:09:15PM +0300, Lauri Niskanen wrote:

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On 07/08/2010 06:02 PM, Lukas Grässlin wrote:

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I often use Ctrl+C when I forgot something and want to cancel the installations and I'm sure it reacts a lot slower than before. (Seen that on multiple machines)

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 07:22:00AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:

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2010/7/8 Lukas Grässlin:

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Hi there,

since the update from pacman 3.3 to 3.4 it reacts really slow to a SIGINT (Ctrl+C) while syncing or installing a packet. With 3.3 it immediately stops.

Not a hugh problem, but I would know why it is so.

I don't think we changed our signal handler at all in 3.4. I haven't noticed any difference while syncing, and you probably won't find me hitting Ctrl-C during package installation that often.

-Dan

Doesn't it cause corruptions and out-of-syncness between the filesystem and package database if you abort the install?

Sorry, I don't really mean the installation itself but the Download of the files. I never really aborted while really installung but when it downloads the packages. And this Abortion takes much more time than before.

But whatever, this is not really a problem. I just thought it would be nice if I know why ;)

I'm able to reproduce this one, but wouldn't have realised it if not for a secondary report. I CTRL+C a lot when I'm on uselessly-slow network connections that require frequent bail-outs. However, I'm not motivated enough to bother about it. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD