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    selftests/powerpc: Kill child processes on SIGINT · 7c27a26e
    Breno Leitao authored
    There are some powerpc selftests, as tm/tm-unavailable, that run for a long
    period (>120 seconds), and if it is interrupted, as pressing CRTL-C
    (SIGINT), the foreground process (harness) dies but the child process and
    threads continue to execute (with PPID = 1 now) in background.
    
    In this case, you'd think the whole test exited, but there are remaining
    threads and processes being executed in background. Sometimes these
    zombies processes are doing annoying things, as consuming the whole CPU or
    dumping things to STDOUT.
    
    This patch fixes this problem by attaching an empty signal handler to
    SIGINT in the harness process. This handler will interrupt (EINTR) the
    parent process waitpid() call, letting the code to follow through the
    normal flow, which will kill all the processes in the child process group.
    
    This patch also fixes a typo.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo Romero <gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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