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[PATCH v6 3/6] git-p4: retry kill/cleanup operations in tests with timeout

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Date
Nov 19, 2015, 08:58 UTC
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From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>

In rare cases kill/cleanup operations in tests fail. Retry these operations with a timeout to make the test less flaky.

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
---
 t/lib-git-p4.sh | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/lib-git-p4.sh b/t/lib-git-p4.sh
index 7548225..3c9ad9a 100644
--- a/t/lib-git-p4.sh
+++ b/t/lib-git-p4.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 # a subdirectory called "$git"
 TEST_NO_CREATE_REPO=NoThanks
 
+# Some operations require multiple attempts to be successful. Define
+# here the maximal retry timeout in seconds.
+RETRY_TIMEOUT=60
+
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 if ! test_have_prereq PYTHON
@@ -36,6 +40,15 @@ native_path() {
 	echo "$path"
 }
 
+# On Solaris the 'date +%s' function is not supported and therefore we
+# need this replacement.
+# Attention: This function is not safe again against time offset updates
+# at runtime (e.g. via NTP). The 'clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC)'
+# function could fix that but it is not in Python until 3.3.
+time_in_seconds() {
+	python -c 'import time; print int(time.time())'
+}
+
 # Try to pick a unique port: guess a large number, then hope
 # no more than one of each test is running.
 #
@@ -121,22 +134,35 @@ p4_add_user() {
 	EOF
 }
 
+retry_until_success() {
+	timeout=$(($(time_in_seconds) + $RETRY_TIMEOUT))
+	until "$@" 2>/dev/null || test $(time_in_seconds) -gt $timeout
+	do
+		sleep 1
+	done
+}
+
+retry_until_fail() {
+	timeout=$(($(time_in_seconds) + $RETRY_TIMEOUT))
+	until ! "$@" 2>/dev/null || test $(time_in_seconds) -gt $timeout
+	do
+		sleep 1
+	done
+}
+
 kill_p4d() {
 	pid=$(cat "$pidfile")
-	# it had better exist for the first kill
-	kill $pid &&
-	for i in 1 2 3 4 5 ; do
-		kill $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
-		sleep 1
-	done &&
+	retry_until_fail kill $pid
+	retry_until_fail kill -9 $pid
 	# complain if it would not die
 	test_must_fail kill $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
 	rm -rf "$db" "$cli" "$pidfile"
 }
 
 cleanup_git() {
-	rm -rf "$git" &&
-	mkdir "$git"
+	retry_until_success rm -r "$git"
+	test_must_fail test -d "$git" &&
+	retry_until_success mkdir "$git"
 }
 
 marshal_dump() {
-- 
2.5.1
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  2. 1/6 implement test_might_fail using a refactored test_must_faillarsxschneider@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2015
  3. 2/6 add "ok=sigpipe" to test_must_fail and use it to fix flaky testslarsxschneider@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2015
  4. 3/6 git-p4: retry kill/cleanup operations in tests with timeoutlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2015
  5. 4/6 git-p4: add p4d timeout in testslarsxschneider@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2015
  6. 5/6 git-p4: add trap to kill p4d on test exitlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2015
  7. 6/6 Add Travis CI supportlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2015
  8. Jeff KingNov 19, 2015
  9. Lars SchneiderNov 20, 2015
  10. Jeff KingNov 19, 2015
  11. Lars SchneiderNov 20, 2015
  12. Luke DiamandNov 20, 2015
  13. Jeff KingNov 23, 2015
  14. Luke DiamandNov 23, 2015

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