Re: [PATCH] iotests/testrunner: Flush after run_test()

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 06.05.2022 um 15:42 hat Hanna Reitz geschrieben:
> When stdout is not a terminal, the buffer may not be flushed at each end
> of line, so we should flush after each test is done.  This is especially
> apparent when run by check-block, in two ways:
> 
> First, when running make check-block -jX with X > 1, progress indication
> was missing, even though testrunner.py does theoretically print each
> test's status once it has been run, even in multi-processing mode.
> Flushing after each test restores this progress indication.
> 
> Second, sometimes make check-block failed altogether, with an error
> message that "too few tests [were] run".  I presume that's because one
> worker process in the job pool did not get to flush its stdout before
> the main process exited, and so meson did not get to see that worker's
> test results.  In any case, by flushing at the end of run_test(), the
> problem has disappeared for me.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin