Re: [PATCH] support: Introduce new subdirectory for test infrastructure

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

On 12/12/2016 05:38 PM, Stefan Liebler wrote:

>> Can we assume that the test will run to completion with a 300-second
>> timeout (plus TIMEOUTFACTOR scaling)?  Then I'll update the test
>> accordingly.
>>
> I don't know how long it lasts on other archs.
> What happens if the testcase timeouts as the testcase expects a SIGALRM?

A timeout is delivered as SIGALARM. :)

So the intent probably is that the test can either exit with 0, or time 
out, and both outcomes are fine.

I think this is rather odd.  We could express this more clearly with 
delayed_exit if this is really our intent here, or we can just keep it 
as an xtest with a long timeout, update the comment, and remove the 
expected SIGALRM signal because we no longer expect the test to time out 
on reasonably current hardware.

Florian