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[PATCH v6 4/6] git-p4: add p4d timeout in tests

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

In rare cases p4d seems to hang. This watchdog will kill the p4d process after 300s in any case. That means each individual git p4 test needs to finish before 300s or it will fail.

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
---
 t/lib-git-p4.sh | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/t/lib-git-p4.sh b/t/lib-git-p4.sh
index 3c9ad9a..acd5578 100644
--- a/t/lib-git-p4.sh
+++ b/t/lib-git-p4.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ TEST_NO_CREATE_REPO=NoThanks
 # here the maximal retry timeout in seconds.
 RETRY_TIMEOUT=60
 
+# Sometimes p4d seems to hang. Terminate the p4d process automatically after
+# the defined timeout in seconds.
+P4D_TIMEOUT=300
+
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 if ! test_have_prereq PYTHON
@@ -94,6 +98,19 @@ start_p4d() {
 	# will be caught with the "kill -0" check below.
 	i=${P4D_START_PATIENCE:-300}
 	pid=$(cat "$pidfile")
+
+	timeout=$(($(time_in_seconds) + $P4D_TIMEOUT))
+	while true
+	do
+		if test $(time_in_seconds) -gt $timeout
+		then
+			kill -9 $pid
+			exit 1
+		fi
+		sleep 1
+	done &
+	watchdog_pid=$!
+
 	ready=
 	while test $i -gt 0
 	do
@@ -156,7 +173,8 @@ kill_p4d() {
 	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"
+	rm -rf "$db" "$cli" "$pidfile" &&
+	retry_until_fail kill -9 $watchdog_pid
 }
 
 cleanup_git() {
-- 
2.5.1
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  1. 0/6 Add Travis CI supportlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2015
  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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