Re: [PATCH] Fix blocking read timeouts at a small probability

[felix]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:41:29AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Just for testing, not for any real use case.
> 
> > He also provided me with his new test case
> > to see the interaction with SIGCHLD. The failure of this test case
> > seems to have also involved SIGCHLD in the previous devel Bash. Now in
> > the current devel, it is improved but still sometimes blocks.

Originally, this was a (my) bug in a multi-tasked script**, where timeout was
(wrongly) computed from previous step. When my script locked for unknown
reason, I wrote test script in order to reveal this.

> If you need a timeout on the order of a single microsecond in a shell
> script, I urge you to reconsider your choices.
I agree, for this kind of tricks, Python (or even Perl) is more apropriated,
but I like to see how a poor system (with only few binary libraries) could
do unattended things...

...And it's fun to see how far we can go with bash, today.

  ** https://f-hauri.ch/vrac/multiping.sh.txt
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