Pete Wyckoff <pw@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, this is all very shoddy, and I suspect that I don't need the > initial kill_p4d as long as the other tests fail nicely. > > But your point about killing the _wrong_ p4d is good. But p4d > isn't friendly like other daemons that will drop a pid file for > help in future cleanup. I can run it without the "-d", in which > case it does not daemonize. Then I should be able to use shell > job control to kill off the one I started, hopefully. Yeah, something like : start p4d & echo $! >$pidfile : stop while kill -0 $pidfile do kill $pidfile sleep 1 done > Finding an unused port is also a pain. I think the way t55xx series assign LIB_HTTPD_PORT is an acceptable compromise. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html