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src/Managing.WebApp/install_problematic_packages.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Array of known potentially hanging packages
+hanging_packages=("xmlhttprequest-ssl@latest" "engine.io-parser@latest")
+
+# Timeout in seconds for each package installation attempt
+
+
+install_with_timeout() {
+    package=$1
+    echo "Attempting to install $package with a timeout of $timeout_duration seconds."
+    # Start npm install in the background
+    npm install $package --verbose &> $package.log &
+
+    # Get PID of the npm process
+    pid=$!
+
+    # Wait for the npm process to finish or timeout
+    (sleep $timeout_duration && kill -0 $pid 2>/dev/null && kill -9 $pid && echo "Timeout reached for $package, process killed." && echo $package >> exclude.log) &
+    waiter_pid=$!
+
+    # Wait for the npm process to complete
+    wait $pid
+
+    # Kill the waiter process in case npm finished before the timeout
+    kill -0 $waiter_pid 2>/dev/null && kill -9 $waiter_pid
+}
+
+# Install potentially hanging packages first with a timeout
+for package in "${hanging_packages[@]}"; do
+    install_with_timeout $package
+done