procps/testsuite
Craig Small cacba5613e Reliably kill test processes
It seems command -v also includes built-ins so checking for kill
is useless because it finds the built-in and those machines or
environments that have no /bin/kill fail at the check stage.
Oh and then TCL exec doesn't spawn a shell.

After reading way too many TCL websites, I believe this should
fix the problem. TCL quoting is... different to say the least but
it works reliably here. The script now even picked up a typo elsewhere
which was nice.

This change should stop the intermittent FTBFS bugs from the Debian
pbuilders, I hope! You'd think kill $var wouldn't be this difficult.
2014-07-01 18:51:21 +10:00
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config Reliably kill test processes 2014-07-01 18:51:21 +10:00
free.test all: fix misspellings in docs and program comments 2012-04-25 13:46:02 +10:00
kill.test skip kill test too if running runtest 2013-05-26 07:25:55 +10:00
lib.test lib: add fileutils file with stream error checking facility 2012-03-23 15:57:41 +01:00
pgrep.test Reliably kill test processes 2014-07-01 18:51:21 +10:00
pkill.test Reliably kill test processes 2014-07-01 18:51:21 +10:00
pmap.test Update help files 2014-02-02 18:13:01 +11:00
ps.test ps.test: see truncated user/group names as valid 2012-12-13 21:45:28 +11:00
pwdx.test tests: fix dejagnu pwdx and vmstat checks 2012-02-11 21:42:21 +01:00
slabtop.test Updated testsuite files for new NLS output 2012-01-02 17:39:41 +11:00
sysctl.test Updated testsuite files for new NLS output 2012-01-02 17:39:41 +11:00
uptime.test test for previous commit 2012-12-26 23:21:44 +11:00
vmstat.test Reduced partition type check 2014-05-27 20:49:16 +10:00
w.test Fix w tests when no user is logged in 2012-05-08 22:51:19 +10:00
.gitignore tests: add SCHED_BATCH test 2012-01-09 21:37:41 +01:00
Makefile.am procps-ng testsuite : simplify DEJAGNU workaround 2013-05-26 07:32:02 +10:00
README docs: add testsuite readme file 2012-03-03 18:36:29 +11:00

How to use check suite
----------------------

You need DejaGNU package.  Assuming you have it all you need to do is

make check


Something failed now what
-------------------------

First determine what did not work.  If only one check failed you can
run it individually in debugging mode.  For example

runtest -a -de -v w.test/w.exp
Expect binary is /usr/bin/expect
Using /usr/share/dejagnu/runtest.exp as main test driver
[...]

Do not bother capturing screen output, it is in testrun.log which
test suite generated.

$ ls  testrun.* dbg.log
dbg.log  testrun.log  testrun.sum

The reason why test failed should be in dbg.log.  Assuming you
figured out the reason you could write a patch fixing w.test/w.exp
and send it to upstream.

If you do not know how, or have time, to fix the issue create tar.gz
file containing test run logs and submit it to upstream maintainers.
Notice that in later case upstream sometimes has to ask clarifying
questions about environment where problem occurred.