RFC: utility of 'orphansbuild' patch to mock-helper (BZ#221351)?

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 10 July 2007 13:13:33 Mike Bonnet wrote:
> GDB is not the only build that leaves orphaned processes lying around.
> I've seen similar behavior when building gcc, glibc, and mysql, to name
> a few.  The problems are usually caused by test suites called during the
> build process, and leaving them around after a build has completed (or
> failed) can tie up system resources or in some cases cause subsequent
> builds to fail.
>
> Just as mock cleans up the filesystem after a build, it should probably
> be cleaning up the process list as well.  I'd be in favor of adding this
> patch.  Koji could certainly make use of it.

I see it with java builds too, so I'd +1 this as an easy tool to use to clean 
up stalled builds.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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