Re: kern/47563: test cases do not timeout and hang

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/47563; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: julio%meroh.net@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%gnats.netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/47563: test cases do not timeout and hang
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:32:25 +0100

 On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 04:29:12PM -0500, julio%meroh.net@localhost wrote:
 
 > In all honesty, the code in atf-run that manages timeouts and muxes
 > the output of the tests is quite retarded.  I won't be surprised if
 > there are bugs lingering around... but it's hard to explain why such a
 > bug would only trigger in sparc64 if that's the case.
 
 No, all is fine, timeout triggers but it does not manage to shut down the
 test case.
 
 > What happens to the rump_allserver process?  Does it crash?  Maybe
 > attempting to reproduce its behavior under a different platform would
 > trigger the same atf-run bug, if any?
 
 It deadlocks in the rump kernel. It is killable from the host, but the
 test case has no code to automatically do that.
 
 Martin