Re: CVS commit: src/tests/syscall

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <4DD39547.9010707%julipedia.org@localhost>,
Julio Merino  <jmmv%julipedia.org@localhost> wrote:
>On 5/18/11 4:15 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> Module Name: src
>> Committed By:        christos
>> Date:                Wed May 18 03:15:12 UTC 2011
>>
>> Modified Files:
>>      src/tests/syscall: t_pselect.c
>>
>> Log Message:
>> Don't depend on the atf timeout stuff, do it ourselves.
>
>Why?  Could atf do something better here?

1. It did not work. What units is the timeout anyway? I waited 2 seconds
   and 2 minutes and it did not fire.
2. I need to do some cleanup if there is a timeout (kill the stuck process).
   How do I register a cleanup function?
3. No matter how the timeout is done (unless you start a watcher process and
   kill -KILL the test process) it can break (masking signal mask, changing
   timers, catching signal).

christos