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[PATCH] posix/tst-spawn: Fix racy tests in spawned processes.
- From: Stefan Liebler <stli at linux dot ibm dot com>
- To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:41:18 +0100
- Subject: [PATCH] posix/tst-spawn: Fix racy tests in spawned processes.
Hi,
from time to time I get fails in tst-spawn like:
tst-spawn.c:111: numeric comparison failure
left: 0 (0x0); from: xlseek (fd2, 0, SEEK_CUR)
right: 28 (0x1c); from: strlen (fd2string)
error: 1 test failures
tst-spawn.c:252: numeric comparison failure
left: 1 (0x1); from: WEXITSTATUS (status)
right: 0 (0x0); from: 0
error: 1 test failures
It turned out, that a child process is testing it's open file
descriptors with e.g. a sequence of testing the current position,
setting the position to zero and reading a specific amount of bytes.
Unfortunately starting with commit
2a69f853c03034c2e383e0f9c35b5402ce8b5473 the test is spawning a second
child process which is sharing some of the file descriptors. If the
test sequence as mentioned above is running in parallel it leads to test
failures.
As the second call of posix_spawn shall test a NULL pid argument, this
patch is just moving the waitpid of the first child before the
posix_spawn of the second child.
Okay for commit?
(I assume 2.30)
Bye,
Stefan
ChangeLog:
* posix/tst-spawn do_test(): Move waitpid before posix_spawn.