[LTP] [PATCH] lib/tst_test.c: Bugfix for heartbeat

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Tue Apr 13 09:42:28 CEST 2021


Hi!
> > > +		/*
> > > +		 * We need kill the task group immediately since the
> > > +		 * main process has exit.
> > > +		 */
> > > +		kill(0, SIGKILL);
> > 
> > Shouldn't we call exit here? There is no point in continuing once we
> > reached this point.
> >
> 
> Yes, There is no point in continuing once we reached this point. Considering the test might have created sub processes with system, posix_spawn and so on,
> 
> do we need to kill the task group?

Yes, I think this is the right course of action, we do the same if the
test timeouts as well.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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