309823 - Logfile from runtests.sh fills up with Terminated messages when using bash

Status: NEW

(NSPR :: NSPR, defect)

Description

[Jason Reid]

Problem first found with Linux tests. Problem duplicated on Solaris 5.9
with /usr/bin/bash. TEST_TIMEOUT was set to 60.

mace[svbld]:/share/builds/mccrel3/security/securitytip/builds/20050923.1/wozzeck_Solaris8/mozilla/nsprpub/SunOS5.8_64_DBG.OBJ/pr/tests>
/usr/bin/bash ./runtests.sh

NSPR Test Results - tests

BEGIN                   Fri Sep 23 16:06:40 PDT 2005
NSPR_TEST_LOGFILE       /dev/null

Test                    Result

accept                  Passed
acceptread./runtests.sh: line 272: 22061 Terminated              ( sleep
$TEST_TIMEOUT; kill $test_pid >/dev/null 2>&1 )
                        Passed
acceptreademu./runtests.sh: line 272: 22066 Terminated              ( sleep
$TEST_TIMEOUT; kill $test_pid >/dev/null 2>&1 )
                        Passed
affinity./runtests.sh: line 272: 22072 Terminated              ( sleep
$TEST_TIMEOUT; kill $test_pid >/dev/null 2>&1 )
                        Passed

mace[svbld]:/u/svbld/ns/securityqa/nightly/solaris> ptree 22054
329   /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
  17668 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    17670 -tcsh
      22054 /usr/bin/bash ./runtests.sh
        22065 ./acceptread
        22066 /usr/bin/bash ./runtests.sh
          22067 sleep 60

Using bash, when runtests.sh kills the subshell containing the sleep process, a
Terminated message is printed. This behaviour does not occur when using the
Bourne shell. The created impression which is erronous is that the 
test script is killing every test and falsely reporting passes. 

This behavious makes it difficult to detect after the fact if runtest.sh 
did need to terminate a hanging test case.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee is inactive on Bugzilla, so the assignee is being reset.