[Qt-creator] QT Creator 2.4.0 feature request

[Christian Kandeler]

On 15/12/11 22:51, ext Uwe Fechner wrote:
> I tested it, and I have the impression, that SIGTERM is either not tried
> at all, or the time delay between SIGTERM and SIGKILL is very small
> (smaller than three seconds).
> Our application needs up to three seconds, to write the log file buffer
> to the (slow) flash memory.
>
> How long is the delay currently?
>
> If it is too short for us, would it be possible to add an option to
> change this delay in the next release?

The whole stop mechanism is a bit of a mess. Ideally, I would like to do 
something like this:
	kill -SIGTERM $PID || kill -SIGKILL $PID
However, the kill command is not completely synchronous in that it does 
not check whether the process does actually exit. So if your application 
does this:
	signal(SIGTERM, SIGN_IGN);
then the above command line will return success, but the process will 
happily keep running.
So my proposal would be to only call the kill command once, but let the 
user choose between SIGTERM and SIGKILL in the run configuration (or 
perhaps offer all signals?). I would then also change the current 
behavior of blindly assuming that the process has exited after the kill 
command and instead wait for the process before reporting the run 
control as finished. In case a process really hangs, the user would have 
to close the run control via the "x" button.
Sound sensible?


Christian