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

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 01:05:43AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> 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.

Huh.  I usually exit with ^B-& then ^C and that only occasionally
leaves things behind.

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