[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] kill-bb: Add it for killing abnormal bitbake processes

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 11:21 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 02/08/2019 11:24, Robert Yang wrote:
> > There might be processes left after Ctr-C, e.g.:
> > $ rm -f tmp/cache/default-glibc/qemux86/x86_64/
> > $ bitbake -p
> > 
> > Press 'Ctrl-C' multiple times during parsing, then bitbake
> > processes may not
> > exit, and the worse is that we can't start bitbake again, we can't
> > always
> > reproduce this, but sometime. We can only use "ps ux" to find the
> > processes and
> > kill them one by one. This tool can kill all of them easily.
> I've noticed this, and also noticed that it got a lot worse recently.
> 
> But let's fix bitbake instead of adding tools to work around it?

Heh. As someone who spends a lot of time trying to debug this, I must
admit I could use such a script so I'm torn on this one!

Cheers,

Richard