[PATCH 2/2] tests/threads-execve: force clock_nanosleep syscall

[Alyssa Ross]

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:21:46AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 05:57:43PM +0000, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> > Using clock_nanosleep here means that these sleeps won't show up in
> > the test result, which only monitors for nanosleep.  But on Musl,
> > clock_nanosleep(CLOCK_REALTIME, 0, ...) will use the nanosleep
> > syscall, so on Musl these extra sleeps would appear in the test output
> > and break the tests.
> > ---
> > As an aside, by default if they fail, threads-execve* tests will be
> > rerun repeatedly for 1.2 hours, in the hope that they will pass.  It
>
> There is an environment variable TIMEOUT_DURATION that controls how long
> each test is allowed to run.  It's default value is 1500 (seconds), and
> it's implemented using timeout(1).  Please make sure your environment
> provides timeout(1), otherwise TIMEOUT_DURATION has no effect.

Yeah, that's what I was talking about, although I got my maths wrong.

1500 seconds is 24 minutes.  These tests retry for half of
TIMEOUT_DURATION, so they keep retrying for 12 minutes each.  That seems
like an absurdly long time to keep retrying for, especially since
running the test once takes less than a second (for me at least), so by
the time that timeout elapses, they'll have retried hundreds of times.
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