Re: Bug#523794: ITP: php-version-control-svn -- wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2009-04-12, Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:
>> Artur R. Czechowski wrote:
>>>   Programming Lang: PHP
>>>   Description     : wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client
>> A php wrapper around the svn command-line client sounds like an completely
>> braindead idea. Not only that php is utter crap, but relying on exit codes and
>> output of svn is the worst idea ever. It also sounds like a security nightmare -
>> allowing php to use exec() and system() is a pretty bad idea, and trying to
>> parse the output of programs is error-prone, too.
> 
> I also found svn to be not Ctrl-C-able at time.  I don't know if that applies
> to other signals too but if so I can imagine quite some hanging processes
> on a server.

Ack - I know this problem too well. the 'kill -9' axe is the only way to get rid
of svn processes in time, unfortunately.


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