On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 04:42:03PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Nevermind, I see that the script has been modified to use bash. > > I can reproduce the problem now so it's all good. OK the problem is this: sh -c 'sleep 1d& exec $MYSHELL -c "sleep 1& wait"' You can replace MYSHELL with whatever shell you want to use. Essentially dash will now wait for all children, even ones that were created prior to its existence, however, bash only waits for children that it created directly. FWIW ksh exhibits the same behaviour as dash and I think there is nothing wrong with this. So the problem is really in the parent of this shell, which appears to be bash: bash -c set -e; export USER=`id -nu`; . /etc/profile >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; . ~/.profile >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; buildtree="/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/build.f2G/real-tree"; mkdir -p -m 1777 -- "/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/timedated-artifacts"; export AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS="/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/timedated-artifacts"; export ADT_ARTIFACTS="$AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS"; mkdir -p -m 755 "/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp"; export AUTOPKGTEST_TMP="/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp"; export ADTTMP="$AUTOPKGTEST_TMP"; export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; export LANG=C.UTF-8; export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=2; unset LANGUAGE LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL;rm -f /tmp/autopkgtest_script_pid; set -C; echo $$ > /tmp/autopkgtest_script_pid; set +C; trap "rm -f /tmp/autopkgtest_script_pid" EXIT INT QUIT PIPE; cd "$buildtree"; export AUTOPKGTEST_NORMAL_USER=; export ADT_NORMAL_USER=; chmod +x /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/build.f2G/real-tree/debian/tests/timedated; touch /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/timedated-stdout /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/timedated-stderr; /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/build.f2G/real-tree/debian/tests/timedated 2> >(tee -a /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/timedated-stderr >&2) > >(tee -a /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.is4n6xxr/downtmp/timedated-stdout); For some reason this is causing the final two tee's to be created as children of debian/tests/timedated rather than the bash shell. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt