[ltt-dev] [UST PATCH] TESTS: Add a delay at the start of the fork test for a more uniform testing.

[Yannick Brosseau]

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>>> I'm afraid we're falling into a bit of a trap here. The trap is called
>>> "fixing the test-case instead of fixing the code". It's quite typical
>>>     
>> No that's not the case here. I'm fixing the test case, so it shows us a
>> problem that was occuring randomly before.
>> With my "fix" to the test case, the test case will fail all the time and
>> showing us the problem when we fork later. (Some application do it, so
>> UST should not fail there)
>>   
> So you're saying that this causes the test case to fail all the time
> because now we leave time for things to properly initialise, while if
> we don't initialise things sometimes work?
> I think I understand what you mean but I still don't agree. What about
> making sure somehow that we are fully initialized before we hit
> main()? In the case where we are tracing from startup using usttrace
> we should in fact be fully initialised before we allow the program to
> enter main.
>
> If you don't think we should be fully initialized before entering
> main() please explain why.

I have no real opinion on the initialization, I don't have enough
knowledge about it right now.
But I see no real needs for the consumerd to be started before we start
main. I can imagine cases where we want to get to main the fastest way
possible and leave the unnecessary things for later.

That being said, my goal right now it to get a test suite that do useful
tests and can identify problems and the change I propose to the test are
finding problems.

Also, if we decide that we need to be fully initialized, we will need to
write a test case that can test that.