From 18373cba743e16e502e18d795af360600f9fd44d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Camilo Celis Guzman Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 23:14:07 +0100 Subject: mtest: terminate a test via SIGTERM first then (if needed) via SIGKILL --- docs/markdown/snippets/termination_signal_for_tests.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/markdown/snippets/termination_signal_for_tests.md (limited to 'docs/markdown') diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/termination_signal_for_tests.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/termination_signal_for_tests.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e99ea16 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/termination_signal_for_tests.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +## Changed the signal used to terminate a test process (group) + +A test process (group) is now terminated via SIGTERM instead of SIGKILL +allowing the signal to be handled. However, it is now the responsibility of +the custom signal handler (if any) to ensure that any process spawned by the +top-level test processes is correctly killed. -- cgit v1.1