Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 4/6] tests: check if qemu-nbd is still alive before waiting

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 10:24:54AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/16/18 9:53 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > If the qemu-nbd UNIX socket has not shown up, the tests will sleep a bit
> > and then check again repeatedly for upto 30 seconds. This is pointless
> 
> s/upto/up to/
> 
> > if the qemu-nbd process has quit due to an error, so check whether the
> > pid is still alive before waiting and retrying.
> 
> "But our tests are perfect and qemu-nbd never fails" :)

Well the key benefit for this is actually people writing new tests,
like me with this series, who continually screw up the argv syntax
to qemu-nbd and don't want to wait 30 seconds for it to fail :)

> Yes, this makes sense.  Not 3.1 material on its own (after all, our
> testsuite isn't showing such failures, so we aren't wasting that time at the
> moment) - but worth including if the later patches end up in 3.1.
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >   tests/qemu-iotests/common.nbd | 10 +++++++++-
> >   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> 
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.nbd b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.nbd
> > index f920a578f1..61e9e90fee 100644
> > --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.nbd
> > +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.nbd
> > @@ -37,11 +37,19 @@ function nbd_server_stop()
> >   function nbd_server_wait_for_unix_socket()
> >   {
> > +    pid=$1
> > +
> >       for ((i = 0; i < 300; i++))
> >       do
> >           if [ -r "$nbd_unix_socket" ]; then
> >               return
> >           fi
> > +        kill -s 0 $pid 2>/dev/null
> > +        if test $? != 0
> > +        then
> > +            echo "qemu-nbd unexpectedly quit"
> > +            exit 1
> 
> Maybe the echo should be redirected to stderr.  But we aren't consistently
> doing that in other tests (_init_error does it, but other spots in check are
> not), so I'm not changing it.

Regards,
Daniel
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