From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Subject: Re: regress: do not use job control, timeout(1)
To: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 16:45:53 +0200

Omar Polo:

> Not sure if it would help, but since we use that idiom to either start a
> perl script that behaves like a http server or nc(1) to mimick a smtpd
> server, we could just move the timeout handling to perl using, for e.g.,
> alarm().

Maybe.

I'm not enthusiastic about relying on timeouts.  They're a notorious
source of unreliability in regression suites if a machine is too
fast or too slow.

I need to check how the various make(1)s and shells interact with
the process group handling.  I'm probably overthinking this.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de