hardcoded 60 second backoff period should be tunable

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distcc 3.2rc1 SVN r755

As also noted in Issue 74, the hardcoded 60 second backoff behavior may be 
undesirable in some circumstances.

Attached patch makes the backoff period tunable via a new env variable 
DISTCC_BACKOFF_PERIOD, which specifies the interval in seconds.  When set to 0, 
disables the backoff behavior altogether (backoff files will not not generated 
nor respected).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kamal@whence.com on 4 Apr 2012 at 6:20

Attachments:

• distcc-backoff-period.patch

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Looks good.

Since you've been contributing a number of good patches, I've added you 
<kamal@whence.com> to the list of contributors with svn commit permission.
So, feel free to go ahead and submit this change.

You'll also need to check out writable svn workspace (see 
http://code.google.com/p/distcc/source/checkout for instructions) and apply the 
patch there before you can submit it.
(You may also need to create a Google account 
<https://accounts.google.com/NewAccount> for that email address first, if you 
don't already have one.)

Original comment by fergus.h...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2012 at 6:48

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Original comment by fergus.h...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2012 at 6:54

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Original comment by kamal@whence.com on 4 Apr 2012 at 7:03

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Fix applied as SVN r761.

Original comment by kamal@whence.com on 4 Apr 2012 at 8:29

• Changed state: Fixed