[Anthill-pro] Aborting a build does not stop the update from the ClearCase

[Varban]

Hi Ivan,

we have problems aborting spawned processes in Windows, my guess is that 
you are running Windows?
Due to the limitations of the operating system, we have no way of 
aborting procesess that might start in a new console, which is probably 
the case with clearcase. We did write a native library for Windows to do 
that but it requires a major change in the whole execution module and we 
are still trying to evalute the impact the change will have on the product.
Furthermore, we are about to release the next version of AnthillPro 
(Anthill3) which is a complete rewrite with a lot of new features and we 
might include the new library in it instead of attempting the change in 
AnthillPro.

Regards,
Varban

Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I bumped into the following problem. I started a build in Anthill Pro
> and it had to first update the project from ClearCase. I aborted the
> build, because I forgot to adjust some properties and after I adjusted
> them, I started the build again. It failed with the following error in
> ClearCase Base Driver log file:
> 
> ERROR - cleartool: Error: A snapshot view update is in progress
> 
> Some minutes later, when the update was finished the build started 
> correctly.
> 
> One reason for this behaviour can be that aborting the update might
> lead to file corruptions in the view. I would expect however that if a
> build is aborted, it aborts all the processes it has started.
> 
> Regards
> Ivan
>