1708752 - Limit the run time, and exit with a time out, background update tasks that take too long

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

This is belt-and-braces above Bug 1707020. We'd like to time out background update tasks that take too long. We should do this at the JS level, racing two promises; and at the Task Scheduler API level, which allows the OS to kill tasks that time out.

Comment 1

[Robin Steuber (she/her) [:bytesized]]

Attachment: Bug 1708752 - Add Background Update Task timeout to the Task Scheduler r=nalexander!,agashlin!

Comment 2

[Robin Steuber (she/her) [:bytesized]]

Attachment: Bug 1708752 - Allow BackgroundTasksManager to use a timeout to prevent long running tasks r=nalexander!

Depends on D115398

Comment 3

[Robin Steuber (she/her) [:bytesized]]

Attachment: Bug 1708752 - Add testing for background task timeout r=nalexander!

Depends on D115399

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/a76e8fb22752
Add Background Update Task timeout to the Task Scheduler r=nalexander,agashlin
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/abc6fafd4e7c
Allow BackgroundTasksManager to use a timeout to prevent long running tasks r=nalexander,application-update-reviewers
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/6a614e6903c2
Add testing for background task timeout r=nalexander

Comment 5

[Alexandru Michis [:malexandru]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a76e8fb22752
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/abc6fafd4e7c
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6a614e6903c2