On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:31:08AM -0600, Charlie Watts wrote: > > Is there anything that can be done to -avoid- this? > > > > Perhaps wrapping the regex portion of SA in an alarm() timer so that > > long-running regexes just get exited from? > > I vote for "writing correct code the first time", followed by "fixing > code that wasn't written correctly the first time." :) > > Doing an alarm() and such would side-step the problem, but not actually > stop the problem from occuring.
How about both: regexes -are- complicated, and folks are likely to write long-running ones again in the future. It could log "long-running test abandoned" or something to the logs, it would make finding problems much faster, too. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
