KCrash - test_crasher spins in a loop on Windows

[David Faure]

On mercredi 17 avril 2019 08:52:23 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, 07:35 Ben Cooksley, <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Currently we have an issue where the test_crasher test will endlessly
> > fork itself while trying to setup it's conditions to run.
> > 
> > This leads to an issue where it will occupy a single CPU core of a
> > builder indefinitely until it's killed (and when killed there are
> > always two test_crasher.exe processes running, and if not killed
> > simultaneously it won't move on to the next test)
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to resolve this?
> > 
> > (This has existed for some time, i've just not had the time to raise
> > it as an issue)
> 
> Gentle ping? Anyone with any thoughts on this?

Is this still an issue?

Does KCrash generally work on Windows?

If nobody has time to debug this autotest on Windows, we could disable it...

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
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