That'd be great if it could be implemented. Is there any way to incorporate that functionality into a custom CMake build?
I don't know the process to generate a custom CMake GUI exe, any resources available on that>? On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:52 PM frodak17 <froda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:27 PM Venedict Tchistopolskii <veny...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Pressing "STOP" in the CMake GUI interface halts CMake itself but does >> not stop any execute_process that is going on at the time. This makes it >> hang until the process finishes, since no interrupt is sent...... >> >> Aggravating when you're using an exterior script (e.g. a .exe or .py) >> that e.g. handles package maintenance. Would hang up for the entire >> duration of ~40 minutes unless you force kill that sub process. >> >> I think force-killing CMake GUI also won't forward the kill to the >> exec_process, orphaning it.....>.< >> >> My reproduction: >> Windows 10 >> CMake script via CMakeLists.txt files >> Executing a Python script PyInstalled into a .exe for windows use -> >> Downloads and untars some SDK's and shows progress (plus a bit more) but >> takes 40-70 minutes average. >> >> Canceling CMake won't cancel python script -> 70min hangup or requirement >> to use task manage and force-kill subprocess. >> >> Let me know any suggestions or possible fixes >> -- >> >> > I commented on this about a month ago: > >> Looks like this would require a code change how the GUI works and the >> internal way execute_process works. Now execute_process knows how to >> cancel a process due to time out, but it didn't seem to check for anything >> else. Essentially it looks like execute_process needs to be signaled by >> the button press to cancel the process in addition to checking for >> timeout. There are other internal interrupt flags that seem to be set when >> the GUI stop button is pressed. Anyways this is what I noticed in the >> code base. >> > > So in the execute_process function it sits in a loop waiting for the > process to finish. If the timeout occurs it kills the process. > At the same time when the GUI stop button is pressed it sets some sort of > abort flag that is used during command processing to quit processing > commands. > It seems that someone should be able to take this abort flag and use it to > not only stop the command processing loop but to also have the > execute_process timeout loop to kill the process if the abort flag is set. > > Best regards, > F >
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