Re: PID-reuse races fix, introduced GCC validation brakage

[Pedro Alves]

On 03/30/2016 04:03 PM, Yvan Roux wrote:
> 
> I not sure what's the best way to fix this issue without
> re-introducing the pid race in GDB.  I'm testing a solution which
> first gather all the childs processes of the close_wait_program pid
> input (with a recursive call of pgrep -P) and then kill them all with
> a -15, my assumption is that killing explicitly all the processes
> (maybe in the child -> parent order) will avoid the need of stdin
> closing and the pid re-use race, but I might be wrong, and all
> comments are welcome. 

Since the process may ignore SIGTERM/15, seems to me you'd still need
to wait a bit and kill with SIGKILL/9 if the process doesn't die
the first time around.  So I'm not seeing how, but maybe if you
showed a snippet it'd be clearer.

> It works so far on a subset of the testsuite,
> but I'm still validating this approach.  Now, maybe just the reducing
> the sleeping time might workaround the issue....

Thanks,
Pedro Alves