From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx>
In rare cases kill/cleanup operations in tests fail. Retry these
operations with a timeout to make the test less flaky.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx>
---
t/lib-git-p4.sh | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/lib-git-p4.sh b/t/lib-git-p4.sh
index 7548225..3c9ad9a 100644
--- a/t/lib-git-p4.sh
+++ b/t/lib-git-p4.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
# a subdirectory called "$git"
TEST_NO_CREATE_REPO=NoThanks
+# Some operations require multiple attempts to be successful. Define
+# here the maximal retry timeout in seconds.
+RETRY_TIMEOUT=60
+
. ./test-lib.sh
if ! test_have_prereq PYTHON
@@ -36,6 +40,15 @@ native_path() {
echo "$path"
}
+# On Solaris the 'date +%s' function is not supported and therefore we
+# need this replacement.
+# Attention: This function is not safe again against time offset updates
+# at runtime (e.g. via NTP). The 'clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC)'
+# function could fix that but it is not in Python until 3.3.
+time_in_seconds() {
+ python -c 'import time; print int(time.time())'
+}
+
# Try to pick a unique port: guess a large number, then hope
# no more than one of each test is running.
#
@@ -121,22 +134,35 @@ p4_add_user() {
EOF
}
+retry_until_success() {
+ timeout=$(($(time_in_seconds) + $RETRY_TIMEOUT))
+ until "$@" 2>/dev/null || test $(time_in_seconds) -gt $timeout
+ do
+ sleep 1
+ done
+}
+
+retry_until_fail() {
+ timeout=$(($(time_in_seconds) + $RETRY_TIMEOUT))
+ until ! "$@" 2>/dev/null || test $(time_in_seconds) -gt $timeout
+ do
+ sleep 1
+ done
+}
+
kill_p4d() {
pid=$(cat "$pidfile")
- # it had better exist for the first kill
- kill $pid &&
- for i in 1 2 3 4 5 ; do
- kill $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
- sleep 1
- done &&
+ retry_until_fail kill $pid
+ retry_until_fail kill -9 $pid
# complain if it would not die
test_must_fail kill $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
rm -rf "$db" "$cli" "$pidfile"
}
cleanup_git() {
- rm -rf "$git" &&
- mkdir "$git"
+ retry_until_success rm -r "$git"
+ test_must_fail test -d "$git" &&
+ retry_until_success mkdir "$git"
}
marshal_dump() {
--
2.5.1
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