always wait a max of 5 seconds for sync Client's background thread to start

2018-10-17 12:33:59 -07:00
parent efa5926813
commit a82232f0ee
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/src/client.rs
+++ b/src/client.rs
@@ -450,7 +450,10 @@ impl ClientHandle {
                .expect("runtime unexpected error");
        }));

-        wait::timeout(spawn_rx, timeout.0).expect("runtime thread cancelled")?;
+        // Wait up to 5 seconds for the background thread to be spawned.
+        // More than that and something bad is up!
+        wait::timeout(spawn_rx, Some(Duration::from_secs(5)))
+            .expect("runtime thread cancelled")?;

        let inner_handle = Arc::new(InnerClientHandle {
            tx: Some(tx),