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-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/lib/gdbserver-support.exp7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 42484fa..d5ff002 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2021-03-19 Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
+
+ * lib/gdbserver-support.exp (gdbserver_exit): Use the
+ "-nowait" flag when waiting for gdbserver to exit.
+
2021-03-19 Sourabh Singh Tomar <SourabhSingh.Tomar@amd.com>
* gdb.base/info-macros.exp: Append -fdebug-macro to
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdbserver-support.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdbserver-support.exp
index 7b48b5a..0886634 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdbserver-support.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdbserver-support.exp
@@ -421,7 +421,12 @@ proc close_gdbserver {} {
verbose "Quitting GDBserver"
catch "close -i $server_spawn_id"
- catch "wait -i $server_spawn_id"
+
+ # If gdbserver misbehaves, and ignores the close, waiting for it
+ # without the -nowait flag will cause testing to hang. Passing
+ # -nowait makes expect tell Tcl to wait for the process in the
+ # background.
+ catch "wait -nowait -i $server_spawn_id"
unset server_spawn_id
}