Re: [PATCH 0/2] Small fixes for nstool

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 03:54:43PM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > On Wed,  6 Nov 2024 14:03:20 +1100
> > David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> >   
> > > While working on the exeter tests, I noticed a couple of things
> > > missing in nstool.  These make sense standalone, even if we don't have
> > > an urgent need for them without the exeter tests.
> > > 
> > > David Gibson (2):
> > >   test: Rename propagating signal handler
> > >   test: Make nstool hold robust against interruptions to control clients  
> > 
> > Applied.
> > 
> > Actually, one much-needed improvement for nstool in the current test
> > framework (at least for my usage) would be to make it terminate when
> > needed.
> > 
> > A while ago, 'killall -9 nstool' entered my shell history and now it's
> > right there with 'git rebase --continue':
> > 
> > $ sort ~/.bash_history | uniq -c | sort -nr | grep -A1 'killall -9 nstool'
> >     192 killall -9 nstool
> >     192 git rebase --continue  
> 
> Yeah, I have something similar.  But, I don't currently know what
> exactly the circumstances are that lead to those stale nstools, so it
> would involve a fair bit of debugging.

Start tests, the ones using nstool (not the "ugly" ones), then ^C ^D
until you're out of tmux, and nstool is _always_ there at that point.

-- 
Stefano