Bastian Koppelmann <kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de> writes:
> when trying to run successful short tests from the Makefile timeout would no
> terminate. Rather it would wait until the time runs out. Excerpt from the
> manpage:
Which tests hang without this change?
>
> --foreground
> when not running timeout directly from a shell prompt,
> allow COMMAND to read from the TTY and get TTY signals; in this mode, chil‐
> dren of COMMAND will not be timed out
>
> Signed-off-by: Bastian Koppelmann <kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de>
> ---
> tests/tcg/Makefile.target | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tests/tcg/Makefile.target b/tests/tcg/Makefile.target
> index b3cff3cad1..423caffa56 100644
> --- a/tests/tcg/Makefile.target
> +++ b/tests/tcg/Makefile.target
> @@ -40,9 +40,10 @@ quiet-command = $(if $(V),$1,$(if $(2),@printf " %-7s %s\n" $2 $3 && $1, @$1))
>
> # $1 = test name, $2 = cmd, $3 = desc
> ifdef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
> -run-test = $(call quiet-command, timeout $(TIMEOUT) $2 > $1.out,"TEST",$3)
> +run-test = $(call quiet-command, timeout --foreground $(TIMEOUT) $2 > $1.out \
> + "TEST",$3)
This breaks make check-tcg due to a dropped ,
> else
> -run-test = $(call quiet-command, timeout $(TIMEOUT) $2,"TEST",$3)
> +run-test = $(call quiet-command, timeout --foreground $(TIMEOUT) $2,"TEST",$3)
> endif
>
> # $1 = test name, $2 = reference
--
Alex Bennée