Test and fix for infinite loops in view_servers, fix for crashed OS processes causing leaked erlang processes and fix for view server crashing when view group process terminates.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk@780165 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

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diff --git a/src/couchdb/priv/couchspawnkillable b/src/couchdb/priv/couchspawnkillable
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+#! /bin/sh -e
+
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
+# use this file except in compliance with the License.  You may obtain a copy of
+# the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.  See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
+# the License.
+
+# The purpose of this script is to echo an OS specific command before launching
+# the actual process. This provides a way for Erlang to hard-kill its external
+# processes.
+
+echo "kill -9 $$"
+exec $*
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