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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,867 posts)  [Biography] bio   Moderator
Date Mon 12 Dec 2005 07:50 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Is it a bad idea to break out of an infinite loop by attaching gdb to the process, and doing a return out of the function?
Zeno McDohl,
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,772 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Mon 12 Dec 2005 07:54 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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I assume you mean as an emergency measure? ;)

I can't see a big problem with that, I presume you want to get control of your server back long enough to save things and so on.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Samson   USA  (683 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #2 on Tue 13 Dec 2005 03:40 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Sort of a harsh way to do it, but I suppose that works. Personally I prefer using the alarm handlers in Smaug for this and setting game_loop up on a 30 second timer. I haven't run into much that requires game_loop to lock for that long so it's usually reasonable to assume it's stuck after that long.
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