[PATCH v5 3/3] Add tests for the -l/--syscall-limit option

[Sahil Siddiq]

On Sunday, 26 March 2023 01:28:02 IST Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:10:58AM +0530, Sahil Siddiq wrote:
> [...]
> > +	FILE *f = fopen("dummy.file", "w");
> > +	fclose(f);
> > +
> > +	return WEXITSTATUS(status);
> > +}
> 
> There is a problem with this approach: it's racy, because the expected
> output is partially printed asynchronously.  For the same reason, the exit
> status is ignored.  I suggest writing the exit status into a file, and in
> the test script wait for this file, check the exit status, and then
> compare the expected and the actual output.

Sorry, I am still a little unfamiliar with this. Could you please explain the racy
part. While the parent is in the following loop:

        while ((waitpid(child, &status, 0)) != child) {
                if (errno == EINTR)
                        continue;
                perror_msg_and_fail("waitpid: %d", child);
        }

the child process will be busy printing output. After the child terminates, the
parent process will resume. The "dummy.file" is created after that. I didn't
understand which part runs asynchronously and why.

Regards,
Sahil