Hello,

Here is a patch (with git format-patch) that removes any timer if NO_SETITIMER is set.


Éric:

To test it with your workflow:

$ module load apps/git/1.8.1.1.348.g78eb407-NO_SETITIMER-patch

$ git clone ...


                               Sébastien


On 01/22/2013 05:14 PM, Thomas Rast wrote:
> Eric Chamberland <Eric.Chamberland@giref.ulaval.ca> writes:
>
>> So, hum, do we have some sort of conclusion?
>>
>> Shall it be a fix for git to get around that lustre "behavior"?
>>
>> If something can be done in git it would be great: it is a *lot*
>> easier to change git than the lustre filesystem software for a cluster
>> in running in production mode... (words from cluster team) :-/
>
> I thought you already established that simply disabling the progress
> display is a sufficient workaround?  If that doesn't help, you can try
> patching out all use of SIGALRM within git.
>
> Other than that I agree with Junio, from what we've seen so far, Lustre
> returns EINTR on all sorts of calls that simply aren't allowed to do so.
>


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