On 01/20/2014 08:09 PM, chru...@suse.cz wrote: > Hi! >> I came accross the following rare issue: >> >> setpgid03 1 TPASS : setpgid SUCCESS to set errno to EPERM >> setpgid03 2 TFAIL : setpgid FAILED, expect EACCES got 1 >> >> I suppose it may happen if the test host is under stress. >> >> To prevent this it would be better to use tst_checkpoint interface >> for parent-child synchronisations. > > Pushed. > > I've added a follow up patch that removes the alarm() timeout code in > the child and does a few more fixes.
Thank you. > > The timeout should better be handled, if handled at all, in the > checkpoint code. I would not care much about this case because when the > parent is dead does not talk to the child the test will fail anyway... > I didn't care about the test failure in such case. I cared about that without alarm() the child will keep running (i.e. blocking on IO) even after the parent is dead. But I agree that it's not the best place to handle this inside the test case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list Ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
