[SVN-1693] Improved signal handling for svnadmin, svnlook and svn

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-consider
• Component/s: src
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 08/Jan/04 22:52
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:39
• Resolved: 01/Oct/04 17:31

Description

The signal handling in svnadmin, svnlook and the cmdline client is lacking. The
result is that it's way too easy to make a respository hang which makes
Subversion seem fragile. All you need to do is to press ctrl-c during a dump or
verify, or use "svnlook cat | more" and quit more by pressing q.

The (soon to be) attached patch addresses this by implementing cancellation
support to the dump/load/verify code, by handling SIGINT, SIGHUP and SIGTERM,
and by ignoring SIGPIPE. The cmdline client already has SIGINT handling.

Original issue reported by bliss

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SVN-1607 svnadmin dump not release lock on SIGTERM