On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:12:27PM -0600, Charlie Watts wrote: > 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. >
Sounds great, iff it's a command line option. -- Duncan Findlay _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
