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. This part of the script is doing what it was expected to do: tail --pid=$pid -f tail.out | (read; kill $pid) The kill $pid is executed, but $pid is the timeout process, which responds to the SIGTERM by passing along a SIGTERM+SIGCONT to gdb, and then waiting for gdb to die, which never happens. Therefore $pid doesn't die, the tail --pid never dies, and the script makes no further progress. It seems this entire script depends, in both the "fail" and "pass" cases, on the ability to end a gdb process by sending a SIGTERM, which doesn't actually work. My gdb is the one from Debian's 6.8-3 package. If necessary, I'll dig into why it's refusing to deal with SIGTERM. -- Hoping it won't be necessary, Alan Curry
