From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
To: eugene.loh@oracle.com
Cc: dtrace@lists.linux.dev, dtrace-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] test: Disown child pid for cleaner stderr
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:42:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzdnkr3c.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241031044906.15804-1-eugene.loh@oracle.com> (eugene loh's message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:49:06 -0400")
On 31 Oct 2024, eugene loh verbalised:
> From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
>
> The shell can report when a job is killed, potentially
> polluting stderr and thereby mismatching the results file.
>
> When a job is killed at the end of test, appearance of such
> reports may depend on timing details: does the parent test
> or the child job terminate first?
>
> Many tests deal with this problem by disowning child jobs.
>
> Disown jobs in a few more possibly problematic tests.
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
(My only reason for not doing that already was that I mistakenly thought
disown didn't do anything in noninteractive shells.)
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2024-10-31 4:49 [PATCH v2] test: Disown child pid for cleaner stderr eugene.loh
2024-10-31 5:22 ` Kris Van Hees
2024-11-01 13:42 ` Nick Alcock [this message]
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