The initial kill call (actually a killall call at that point in time, replaced with pgrep + kill later) was added more than ten years ago:
----- commit 68cd63d040d51087e04cda1fe27c7a6d0d7c0be2 Author: Mirco Bauer <[email protected]> Date: Thu Jan 16 10:01:05 2014 +0100 Hard kill stray mono processes after each test pass to make the life of buildd admins nicer diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 48df8d9b5c..f5622f8c87 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -56,9 +56,10 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) MONO_SGEN_TEST = true else TIMEOUT = timeout -k 1h 1h - MINI_TEST = cd mono/mini && $(TIMEOUT) make check - MONO_BOEHM_TEST = cd mono/tests && MONO_ENV_OPTIONS=--gc=boehm $(TIMEOUT) make test - MONO_SGEN_TEST = cd mono/tests && MONO_ENV_OPTIONS=--gc=sgen $(TIMEOUT) make test + KILL_MONO = killall -9 mono + MINI_TEST = cd mono/mini && $(TIMEOUT) make check; $(KILL_MONO) + MONO_BOEHM_TEST = cd mono/tests && MONO_ENV_OPTIONS=--gc=boehm $(TIMEOUT) make test; $(KILL_MONO) + MONO_SGEN_TEST = cd mono/tests && MONO_ENV_OPTIONS=--gc=sgen $(TIMEOUT) make test; $(KILL_MONO) endif ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH), powerpc) MONO_SGEN_TEST = true ----- Hopefully this is no longer required, I am going to run some tests with this call removed and see if I end up with rogue mono processes (keeping in mind that my tests are run in sbuild, I don’t know how it deals with such unending processes). If I notice no such lingering processes, then the next src:mono upload is going to ship without that pgrep+kill call, and as such should stop killing unrelated processes.
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