Re: [cdt-dev] Cancelling a 'rogue' make

[kesselhaus <kesselhaus@xxxxxxx>]

Well, I don't think you 'll have different behaviour when calling the 
recursive make from cmd-line. I had this too, but terminating the right 
shell/make process in the taskmanager is really hard. make and shell 
will just spawn new childs and slow down windows to no usage. The 
quiestion is, if you could get the Eclipse process into foreground focus 
to kill the process.

Derek Morris schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I managed to create a makefile that called itself recursively and so 
> entered an infinite loop. Doh.
>
> However, I couldn't find a way through the Eclipse UI to kill the 
> make. Cancel does nothing... In fact I had to switch the whole machine 
> off to recover (machine became so unresponsive that even Windows 
> taskmgr wouldn't start).
>
> So, my questions:
> - Is there a way to 'kill' a rogue process when cancelling a progress 
> monitor?
> - If not, shouldn't there be?
>
> p.s. I know this is user error in creating a bad makefile, but it does 
> happen. I was investigating a user complaint where the compiler got 
> itself into an infinite loop, with similar consequences to above.
>
> Thanks,