Re: [PATCH] t5562: chunked sleep to avoid lost SIGCHILD

> On February 18, 2019 15:50, Max Kirillov wrote:
> > To: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>; git@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>; Johannes Schindelin
> > <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>; Randall S. Becker
> > <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>; 'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@pobox.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] t5562: chunked sleep to avoid lost SIGCHILD
> > 
> > If was found during stress-test run that a test may hang by 60 seconds.
> > It supposedly happens because SIGCHILD was received before sleep has
> > started.
> > 
> > Fix by looping by smaller chunks, checking $exited after each of them.
> > Then lost SIGCHILD would not cause longer delay than 1 second.
> > 
> > Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
> > ---
> > Submitting as proper patch. Note: I believe it does not relate to other issues
> > discussed in this thread.
> >  t/t5562/invoke-with-content-length.pl | 7 ++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/t/t5562/invoke-with-content-length.pl b/t/t5562/invoke-with-
> > content-length.pl
> > index 0943474af2..257e280e3b 100644
> > --- a/t/t5562/invoke-with-content-length.pl
> > +++ b/t/t5562/invoke-with-content-length.pl
> > @@ -29,7 +29,12 @@
> >  }
> >  print $out $body_data or die "Cannot write data: $!";
> > 
> > -sleep 60; # is interrupted by SIGCHLD
> > +my $counter = 0;
> > +while (not $exited and $counter < 60) {
> > +        sleep 1;
> > +        $counter = $counter + 1;
> > +}
> > +
> >  if (!$exited) {
> >          close($out);
> >          die "Command did not exit after reading whole body";
> 
> I tried this fix and it made no difference to the hang on
> NonStop. I do not think this fixes the root cause as sleep
> was never an issue and SIGCHLD was not missed in any test
> I conducted. Maybe on another platform it is required.