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

[Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov]

Hello Varban,

Yes, I am using it Anthill Pro on Windows. I will give Anthill Pro a
try as well.

Regards
Ivan

On 7/13/06, Varban <vvv at urbancode.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
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