Re: spoonbill vs. -HEAD

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> There is some timeout code already in the buildfarm client. It was 
> originally put there to help us when we got CVS hangs, a not infrequent 
> occurrence in the early days, so it's currently only used if configured 
> for the checkout phase, but it could easily be used to create a build 
> timeout which would kill the whole process group if the timeout expired. 
> It wouldn't work on Windows, and of course it won't solve whatever 
> problem caused the hang in the first place, but it still might be worth 
> doing.

+1 --- at least then we'd get reports of failures, rather than the
current behavior where the animal just stops reporting.
        regards, tom lane