Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] test: fix hang on FreeBSD

[Radu Nicolau]

On 5/21/2018 1:30 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:

21/05/2018 13:35, Radu Nicolau:

Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
Cc: sta...@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nico...@intel.com>
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@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ test_panic(void)
                printf("Fork Failed\n");
                return -1;
        }
-       wait(&status);
+       sleep(1);
+       waitpid(pid, &status, WNOHANG);

Please give an explanation why you are adding this sleep.

To give a chance to the child process to complete before calling waitpid.