Re: [PATCH] don't run test 167 if killall is not installed

[Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Test 167 will leave runaway fsstress processes around in case killall is
> not installed and thus make all following tests fail.  This patch checks
> for killall beeing installed and error out otherwise.
> 
> 

Looks reasonable.

However:

* could use set_prog_path like we do in common.config.

* I wonder if one could use "kill -$pgid" on the process group
for fsstress instead of killall (I've never tried it :).

--Tim

> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 
> Index: xfstests/167
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/xfs-cmds/xfstests/167,v
> retrieving revision 1.3
> diff -u -p -r1.3 167
> --- xfstests/167	2 Aug 2007 16:19:56 -0000	1.3
> +++ xfstests/167	15 May 2008 05:34:20 -0000
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ owner=dgc@sgi.com
>  seq=`basename $0`
>  echo "QA output created by $seq"
>  
> +killall="/usr/bin/killall"
>  here=`pwd`
>  tmp=/tmp/$$
>  rm -f $seq.full
> @@ -43,6 +44,8 @@ workout()
>  _supported_fs xfs
>  _supported_os Linux
>  
> +[ -x $killall ] || _notrun "$killall executable not found"
> +
>  _setup_testdir
>  _require_scratch
>  _scratch_mkfs_xfs >/dev/null 2>&1
>