Generally I use environment variables for that sort of test, so that the part of the program that constructs the arguments for the program doesn't have to know to pass a special additional argument.
(See, for example, https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/master:src/cmd/cover/cover_test.go;l=75-82;drc=dd42a84fb36ade570a7bfaf6fec5df44bbf71500.) On Friday, October 28, 2022 at 3:36:08 AM UTC-4 pe...@wonderland.org wrote: > I also use a flag to do this, and I have a local package that then removes > this flag (or any of a defined list) before re-execing the binary: > > https://github.com/ITRS-Group/cordial/tree/main/pkg/process > > https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/itrs-group/cordial/pkg/process#Daemon > > It may not be perfect, but it works for my usage. > > Peter > > On Thursday, 27 October 2022 at 17:47:43 UTC+1 Jan Mercl wrote: > >> Any recursion that does not have a terminating condition will try to >> recurse infinitely ;-) >> >> I'm passing a command line flag in such situations - when testing, but >> the best option depends on the particular use. Elsewhere, in a command that >> starts a server or talks to the server, I used, for example, an ephemeral >> @named socket, which nicely handled both the termination condition and the >> communication and is even safe for concurrent processes competing with each >> other. >> >> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 18:05 Vjeran <vfis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> We have a program that forks itself in order to do some work >>> so calling `./program do` internally finds its path using os.Executable >>> and calls `./program do2` >>> >>> Now when trying to do integration tests program spawns itself and >>> repeats test causing an infinite loop? >>> >>> Any ideas how to handle it? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "golang-nuts" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/6f62afc4-af7a-4548-85c5-6514c2e20a49n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/6f62afc4-af7a-4548-85c5-6514c2e20a49n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/b0f67d9d-1b79-4bdb-9601-4092835f6a4fn%40googlegroups.com.
