Re: [PATCH 16/34] check: deprecate using process sessions to isolate test instances

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On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 01:26:29PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> As I've noted elsewhere, the use of process session ids to "isolate"
> test instances from killing each other is kind of hacky and creates
> other weird side effects.  I'd rather everyone use the new code that
> runs everything in proper isolation with private pid and mount
> namespaces, but I don't know how many people this would break were it a
> hard dependency.
> 
> Deprecate the process session handling immediately with a warning that
> we're going to rip it out in a year.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ok, that answers some of the questions I raised - the session-id
support is time limited and makes people very aware of it.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

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