Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Timeout when download problems occur

On 16/02/11 09:53, Dan McGee wrote:

We already set fetchTimeout to 10 seconds, but this does not apply for some of the connection setup steps such as connect(). This left us hanging in a few places where we would normally be stuck in a system call for an indeterminate amount of time.

This addresses FS#15369, which has grown to include and duplicate several other bugs and failures such as specifying a non-existent FTP server, DSL disconnections, etc.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee ---

I tested this by the "pull out the internet cable" method. Before this patch, I got a time out. After the patch, I got a freeze that I can't crtl+c out of:

sudo ./src/pacman/pacman -Sy Password: :: Synchronizing package databases... kernel64 is up to date testing is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community-testing is up to date ^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C 228.5K 118.2K/s 00:00:01 [###########-----------] 53%

Allan