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.

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