[LTP] [PATCH] [RFC] lib: shell: Fix timeout process races

[Li Wang]

Hi Joerg,

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:36 PM Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
> > > There were actually several races in the shell library timeout
> handling.
> > >
> > > This commit fixes hopefully all of them by:
> > >
> > > * Reimplementing the backgroud timer in C
> > I did that once, but at that point it was kinda rejected ;)
>

Sorry, I was suggesting to solve the problem only in Shell ATM,
and it proved that it's not easy to cover all.


> > See https://lists.linux.it/pipermail/ltp/2021-May/022445.html
> > and https://lists.linux.it/pipermail/ltp/2021-May/022453.html
>
> I guess we found out the hard way that it's impossible to write raceless
> timeouts in shell.


+1 Indeed.

-- 
Regards,
Li Wang
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