On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 17:20:27 +1000
David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> Add a shell helper function to wait for some command to succeed - typically
> a test for something to be done by a background process.  Use it in the
> context code which waits for the guest to respond to ssh-over-vsock
> connections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
>  test/lib/context | 4 +---
>  test/lib/util    | 8 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/test/lib/context b/test/lib/context
> index 43b00dd..ee6b683 100644
> --- a/test/lib/context
> +++ b/test/lib/context
> @@ -63,9 +63,7 @@ EOF
>  	echo "ssh -F ${__ssh} ${__name}" > "${__enter}"
>  
>  	# Wait for the guest to be booted and accepting connections
> -	while ! ssh -F "${__ssh}" "${__name}" :; do
> -		sleep 0.1
> -	done
> +	wait_for ssh -F "${__ssh}" "${__name}" :
>  }
>  
>  # context_teardown() - Remove a context (leave log files intact)
> diff --git a/test/lib/util b/test/lib/util
> index dee6c8d..72023ab 100755
> --- a/test/lib/util
> +++ b/test/lib/util
> @@ -123,3 +123,11 @@ get_info_cols() {
>  		__j=$((__j + 1))
>  	done
>  }
> +
> +# wait_for() - Retry a command until it succeeds
> +# $@:	Command to run
> +wait_for() {
> +        while ! "$@"; do
> +                sleep 0.1

While at it, could we replace this with sleep 0.1 || sleep 1, just in
case we happen to run in an environment not supporting sleep 0.1?

-- 
Stefano