Modify timeout for shell function

[Ben Rubinstein]

Hi Mark,

That's helpful, thank you.

Ben

On 01/11/2023 15:16, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> On 2023-11-01 11:20, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote:
>> An install which runs daily and makes a number of calls using the shell 
>> function occasionally reports
>>     The process "..." exceeded the timeout of 10 seconds.
>>
>> I'm not sure where this timeout is defined; I'm not totally sure where this 
>> message is coming from (the shell? LiveCode? the process that was invoked 
>> through the shell command?).
> 
> Definitely not LiveCode - LiveCode runs the shell process until it ends on all 
> platforms its implemented on (I'll leave it for another day to ponder whether 
> there should be some sort of timeout to account for rogue/hung processes!)
> 
>> Assuming for a moment that this isn't a timeout internal to the process that 
>> I happen to be invoking, is there a way in LiveCode, or in shell 
>> configuration, to modify this timeout?
> 
> Doing a quick google for variants of "The process ... exceeded the timeout of 
> 10 seconds" - then there are various results relating to Laravel - which is a 
> PHP framework. So are you shell'ing to PHP? If so my guess is that whatever 
> PHP script you are running is using sub-processes too, and has a process 
> timeout set to 10s.
> 
> Warmest Regards,
> 
> Mark.
>