ignore sigpipe in testRetry to avoid silent immediate failure
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Key: ZOOKEEPER-482
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-482
Project: Zookeeper
Issue Type: Bug
Components: c client, tests
Affects Versions: 3.2.0
Reporter: Chris Darroch
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 3.2.1
The testRetry test silently exits for me periodically, especially, it seems, on
newer hardware. It also spits out from log messages clutter the test output.
The silent exits turn out to be because SIGPIPE is sometimes delivered during
the sleep(1) in createClient(), the second time createClient() is called.
Since SIGPIPE is not being ignored and there is no signal handler, the process
exists immediately. This leaves the test suite in a broken state, with the
test ZooKeeper process still running because "zkServer.sh stop" is not run by
tearDown(). You have to manually kill the ZK server and retry the tests;
sometimes they succeed and sometimes they don't.
I described SIGPIPE handling a little in ZOOKEEPER-320. The appropriate thing,
I think, is for the client application to ignore or handle SIGPIPE. In this
case, that falls to the test processes. The attached patch fixes the issue for
me with testRetry.
The patch uses sigaction() to ignore SIGPIPE in TestClientRetry.cc and, for
good measure (although I never saw it actually fail for me), TestClient.cc,
since that file also uses sleep() extensively.
I also removed a couple of unused functions and a macro definition from
TestClientRetry.cc, just to simply matters, and turned off log output, which
makes the testRetry output much, much cleaner (otherwise you get a lot of log
output spamming into the nice clean cppunit output :-).
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