Re: make check (8.1) hangs forever

[Pádraig Brady]

Alan Curry wrote:
> The last message I get from "make check" is:
>   PASS: misc/help-version
> 
> Then it sleeps for a long time. During this time, the inotify-race test is
> running. There's a "timeout 10s gdb ..." process that's been running for a
> lot longer than 10 seconds.
> 
> After ^C stops the make, the timeout, gdb, and a couple of tail processes are
> lingering and have to be killed manually.
> 
> So far I've looked at it with strace, which revealed that timeout has sent a
> SIGTERM to gdb, but gdb has SIGTERM blocked so nothing happens.

thanks for investigating.
Perhaps we need to use `timeout -sKILL ...`

cheers,
Pádraig.