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authorAlberto Cortés <alcortesm@gmail.com>2017-02-15 12:41:02 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-02-15 12:41:02 +0100
commitf5a9c7ed5ab58afa255c2f405b30f06f88a6aecf (patch)
treeb334e2b42560fac69469b352329b8527adab7ab6 /common.go
parent48fcea26a90a0e3afea13a23fa4e5e9f6a910f0b (diff)
downloadgo-git-f5a9c7ed5ab58afa255c2f405b30f06f88a6aecf.tar.gz
transport/file: fix race condition on test (#267)
Sometimes, the `TestClone` and `TestPush` tests of `transport/file` fail in travis. This is due to a race condition caused by an incorrect usage of `Cmd.Wait()` while reading from the output and error pipes of the command. This patch fixes the problem by using `Cmd.CombinedOutput()` instead of calling `Cmd.Start()` and `Cmd.Wait()` while reading from the output and error pipes. Details: From the `exec` package documentation: ``` Wait will close the pipe after seeing the command exit, so most callers need not close the pipe themselves; however, an implication is that it is incorrect to call Wait before all reads from the pipe have completed. For the same reason, it is incorrect to call Run when using StdoutPipe. ``` In our tests, the old `execAndGetOutput` function was creating two gorutines to read from the stderr and stdout pipes of the command and then call `Wait` on the command. This caused a race condition: when the `Wait` call finished before the gorutines have read from the pipes, they returned caused an error on `outErr`. The problem only happens sometimes on travis. To reproduce the problem locally, just add a call to time.Sleep(time.Second) to the gorutine before its `ioutil.ReadAll` call to delay them, then `Wait` will always finish before them, closing the pipes, and the gorutines will fail. The returned error detected by the test will be: ``` FAIL: server_test.go:55: ServerSuite.TestClone server_test.go:65: c.Assert(err, IsNil, Commentf("STDOUT:\n%s\nSTDERR:\n%s\n", stdout, stderr)) ... value *os.PathError = &os.PathError{Op:"read", Path:"|0", Err:0x9} ("read |0: bad file descriptor") ... STDOUT: STDERR: ```
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