From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:40:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1727545582523435cab149c2bc857b40@alexander.shukaev.name> <7466e2d177e79983436af2425ceb5b54@alexander.shukaev.name> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528720809 29301 195.159.176.226 (11 Jun 2018 12:40:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:40:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs-devel , Noam Postavsky , Emacs developers To: Alexander Shukaev Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 11 14:40:05 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fSM79-0007To-3Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48549 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSM9G-0002wG-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSM7u-0002es-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSM7u-0006O5-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSM7r-0006MF-Um; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:40:48 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (charybdis-ext-too.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD7BAF2D; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:40:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: I want a WESSON OIL lease!! In-Reply-To: <7466e2d177e79983436af2425ceb5b54@alexander.shukaev.name> (Alexander Shukaev's message of "Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:11:45 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226203 Archived-At: On Jun 11 2018, Alexander Shukaev wrote: > signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, alarm_handler) > signal.alarm(3) > try: > proc = subprocess.call('stat ' + path, > shell=True, > stderr=subprocess.PIPE, > stdout=subprocess.PIPE) > stdoutdata, stderrdata = proc.communicate() > signal.alarm(0) > except Alarm: > print "Timed out after 3 seconds..." How do you know that 3 seconds is enough? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."