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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-01-19T15·58+0100
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-01-19T16·16+0100
commit21948deed99a3295e4d5666e027a6ca42dc00b40 (patch)
tree62579dc51fdee152a67486d428f39ecceb84f08e /tests/timeout.sh
parent63e10b4d28e64107e51207f292ab0093a95c1bc6 (diff)
Kill builds when we get EOF on the log FD
This closes a long-time bug that allowed builds to hang Nix
indefinitely (regardless of timeouts) simply by doing

  exec > /dev/null 2>&1; while true; do true; done

Now, on EOF, we just send SIGKILL to the child to make sure it's
really gone.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/timeout.sh')
-rw-r--r--tests/timeout.sh5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tests/timeout.sh b/tests/timeout.sh
index ba9a6c3df26e..ce1ae7d674a1 100644
--- a/tests/timeout.sh
+++ b/tests/timeout.sh
@@ -24,3 +24,8 @@ if nix-build timeout.nix -A silent --max-silent-time 2; then
     echo "build should have failed"
     exit 1
 fi
+
+if nix-build timeout.nix -A closeLog; then
+    echo "build should have failed"
+    exit 1
+fi