How to detect a possible deadlock in a hudson build?

Question

I am calling a perl script using my hudson job. This script is responsible for getting data from cvs and svn and then running an operation on this data. Now during the weekend this script just didn't stop running. This happened because a particular cvs location was locked and the script was waiting for the locks to be released. How can I make hudson notify me in such scenarios?

Answer 1

Check out the build timeout plugin.