Feature #410

Puppet::Util#execute needs to support a timeout

Added by Luke Kanies over 6 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:ClosedStart date:
Priority:NormalDue date:
Assignee:Markus Roberts% Done:

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Category:plumbing
Target version:-
Affected Puppet version:0.24.8 Branch:
Keywords:

Description

Calling applications need to be able to specify the timeout, there should be a system-wide default, and if the timeout passes then the executing application needs to get killed (this should also be configurable).


Related issues

Related to Puppet - Bug #3033: Using temporary files in /tmp to comunicate with child pr... Investigating 01/12/2010
Related to Puppet - Bug #17603: Puppet execute has unexpected semantics Accepted

History

#1 Updated by Luke Kanies about 6 years ago

The hard part about doing this will be finding all of the calls to execute and setting the timeout correctly.

#2 Updated by Redmine Admin about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from 1 to Accepted

#3 Updated by James Turnbull about 4 years ago

  • Assignee deleted (Puppet Community)
  • Affected Puppet version set to 0.24.8

#4 Updated by James Turnbull over 3 years ago

  • Category changed from unknown to plumbing
  • Assignee set to Markus Roberts
  • Target version deleted (4)

#5 Updated by Nigel Kersten over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from Accepted to Closed

As per the below thread, we’re more aggressively closing tickets whose state is unsure, particularly old tickets with little to no inactivity in a long time.

You are free to reopen them.

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/a040cb9bc5c5b647

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