[LTP] [PATCH v2 1/2] lib: add tst_get_timeout()

[Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.de>]

Hello,

Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> writes:

> Hi!
> It's just an idea, but we can make this even more elegant API.
>
> We measure the time in the test library anyway, so what about we added
> something as tst_timeout_reached() that would return number of seconds
> remaining to 80% of the real timeout or 0 if in a case that the timeout
> was reached. Then we can use this as a soft-timeout in all the testcases
> without any additional steps.
>
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz

80% is probably way more than many of the CVE test cases need unless the
overall timeout is reduced from 5 minutes. Probably 20% would be
OK. Assuming this is the kind of usage scenario you had in mind.

We could also call it tst_timeout_approaching, tst_timeout_near or
tst_time_to_fail... not sure if they are any better.

--
Thank you,
Richard.