From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> The test creates a subshell that keeps running the 'cat' command against a test file in an infinite loop, and after it kills the subshell it unmounts the filesystem, after which point any 'cat' subcommand that runs after or at that time will fail resulting in an unexpected golden output: $ ./check btrfs/081 btrfs/081 3s ... - output mismatch (see /home/fdmanana/git/hub/xfstests/results//btrfs/081.out.bad) --- tests/btrfs/081.out 2018-09-16 21:30:48.501104179 +0100 +++ /home/fdmanana/git/hub/xfstests/results//btrfs/081.out.bad 2019-01-24 20:36:18.989746185 +0000 @@ -206,5 +206,6 @@ Verifying file digests after cloning 14968c092c68e32fa35e776392d14523 SCRATCH_MNT/foo 14968c092c68e32fa35e776392d14523 SCRATCH_MNT/bar +cat: /mnt/scratch/bar: No such file or directory Verifying target file digest after umount + mount 14968c092c68e32fa35e776392d14523 SCRATCH_MNT/bar ... (Run 'diff -u /home/fdmanana/git/hub/xfstests/tests/btrfs/081.out /home/fdmanana/git/hub/xfstests/results//btrfs/081.out.bad' to see the entire diff) Ran: btrfs/081 Failures: btrfs/081 Failed 1 of 1 tests Fix that by adding a proper trap to the reader loop function so that the subshell waits for executed 'cat' commands when it receives SIGTERM. Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> --- tests/btrfs/081 | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/btrfs/081 b/tests/btrfs/081 index 7e83525f..726a370f 100755 --- a/tests/btrfs/081 +++ b/tests/btrfs/081 @@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ create_target_file() reader_loop() { + # Wait for any running 'cat' subcommand before exitting so that after + # the test kills the reader loop subshell it does not fail with an + # error message from a 'cat' subcommand due to the test file being + # temporarily unavailable due to the scratch fs unmount operation. + trap "wait; exit" SIGTERM + local name=$1 while true; do -- 2.11.0