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[backport v10.x] test: fix pty test hangs on aix #28826

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Original PRs: #28600 #28516 #28469

Some pty tests persistently hung on the AIX CI buildbots. Fix that by
adding a helper script that properly sets up the pty before spawning
the script under test.

On investigation I discovered that the test runner hung when it tried
to close the slave pty's file descriptor, probably due to a bug in
AIX's pty implementation. I could reproduce it with a short C program.
The test runner also leaked file descriptors to the child process.

I couldn't convince python's subprocess.Popen() to do what I wanted
it to do so I opted to move the logic to a helper script that can do
fork/setsid/etc. without having to worry about stomping on state in
tools/test.py.

In the process I also uncovered some bugs in the pty module of the
python distro that ships with macOS 10.14, leading me to reimplement
a sizable chunk of the functionality of that module.

And last but not least, of course there are differences between ptys
on different platforms and the helper script has to paper over that.
Of course.

Really, this commit took me longer to put together than I care to admit.

Caveat emptor: this commit takes the hacky ^D feeding to the slave out
of tools/test.py and puts it in the *.in input files. You can also feed
other control characters to tests, like ^C or ^Z, simply by inserting
them into the corresponding input file. I think that's nice.

Fixes: nodejs/build#1820
Fixes: #28489

PR-URL: #28600
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau riclau@uk.ibm.com
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts vieuxtech@gmail.com
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen anna@addaleax.net

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  • make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
  • commit message follows commit guidelines

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Trott commented Jul 23, 2019

Noticed more than one 10.x backport PRs with perma-fail AIX tests. Hoping backporting this fixes it....

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Trott commented Jul 23, 2019

/ping @bnoordhuis (original author) @BethGriggs (person I'm hoping will get this on v10.x-staging quickly if it ends up fixing the issues)

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Trott commented Jul 23, 2019

Looks like AIX tests all passed but then some build/JUnit stuff blew up. Trying again...

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Trott commented Jul 23, 2019

AIX tests passed again but then there was an Java/Jenkins failure. 😞

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Trott commented Jul 23, 2019

Trying again, but forcing a different AIX host to see if it makes a difference....

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see: nodejs/build#1849 (comment)

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Trott commented Jul 23, 2019

OK, so this will have to also backport 1245aca to pass, it would seem.

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Trott commented Jul 23, 2019

OK, added a second backport commit per above. Let's try CI again....

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Trott commented Jul 24, 2019

OK, so tests are passing now and the build problems from the stringbytes tests are no longer a thing...but now there are leftover node processes after the tests and that's resulting in the suite be marked red....

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Trott commented Jul 24, 2019

Let's see if adding 3c9c89d from #28469 fixes it...

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Trott commented Jul 24, 2019

Hooray! That fixed it! (Will need to re-run because of a spurious failure on another platform, but AIX is green.)

@nodejs/releasers Is it OK to pile up three commits from three different PRs like this? I hope so...

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Can you perhaps apply them in order? Or at least check against master because none of the pseudo-tty tests are skipped on AIX on master.

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These tests seem to trigger failures in the entire CI job (not just the
test) on AIX. Skip them to see if that helps alleviate spurious failures
in node-test-commit-aix (and the upstream PR and commit test jobs).

See:
- nodejs/build#1820 (comment)
- nodejs/build#1847 (comment)

PR-URL: nodejs#28469
Backport-PR-URL: nodejs#28826
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Add SKIP status for more tests in stringbytes-external-exceed-max that
are failing on AIX.

PR-URL: nodejs#28516
Backport-PR-URL: nodejs#28826
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Some pty tests persistently hung on the AIX CI buildbots. Fix that by
adding a helper script that properly sets up the pty before spawning
the script under test.

On investigation I discovered that the test runner hung when it tried
to close the slave pty's file descriptor, probably due to a bug in
AIX's pty implementation. I could reproduce it with a short C program.
The test runner also leaked file descriptors to the child process.

I couldn't convince python's `subprocess.Popen()` to do what I wanted
it to do so I opted to move the logic to a helper script that can do
fork/setsid/etc. without having to worry about stomping on state in
tools/test.py.

In the process I also uncovered some bugs in the pty module of the
python distro that ships with macOS 10.14, leading me to reimplement
a sizable chunk of the functionality of that module.

And last but not least, of course there are differences between ptys
on different platforms and the helper script has to paper over that.
Of course.

Really, this commit took me longer to put together than I care to admit.

Caveat emptor: this commit takes the hacky ^D feeding to the slave out
of tools/test.py and puts it in the *.in input files. You can also feed
other control characters to tests, like ^C or ^Z, simply by inserting
them into the corresponding input file. I think that's nice.

Fixes: nodejs/build#1820
Fixes: nodejs#28489

PR-URL: nodejs#28600
Backport-PR-URL: nodejs#28826
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
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Trott commented Jul 24, 2019

Can you perhaps apply them in order?

Rebased and applied in the order in which they landed.

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I'm OK to fast-track

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+1 to fast track

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Trott commented Jul 25, 2019

/ping @nodejs/backporters. AIX tests on v10.x-staging will be red until this lands.

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ZYSzys commented Jul 25, 2019

+1 to fast track.

@ZYSzys ZYSzys added the fast-track PRs that do not need to wait for 48 hours to land. label Jul 25, 2019
BethGriggs pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2019
These tests seem to trigger failures in the entire CI job (not just the
test) on AIX. Skip them to see if that helps alleviate spurious failures
in node-test-commit-aix (and the upstream PR and commit test jobs).

See:
- nodejs/build#1820 (comment)
- nodejs/build#1847 (comment)

PR-URL: #28469
Backport-PR-URL: #28826
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
BethGriggs pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2019
Add SKIP status for more tests in stringbytes-external-exceed-max that
are failing on AIX.

PR-URL: #28516
Backport-PR-URL: #28826
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
BethGriggs pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2019
Some pty tests persistently hung on the AIX CI buildbots. Fix that by
adding a helper script that properly sets up the pty before spawning
the script under test.

On investigation I discovered that the test runner hung when it tried
to close the slave pty's file descriptor, probably due to a bug in
AIX's pty implementation. I could reproduce it with a short C program.
The test runner also leaked file descriptors to the child process.

I couldn't convince python's `subprocess.Popen()` to do what I wanted
it to do so I opted to move the logic to a helper script that can do
fork/setsid/etc. without having to worry about stomping on state in
tools/test.py.

In the process I also uncovered some bugs in the pty module of the
python distro that ships with macOS 10.14, leading me to reimplement
a sizable chunk of the functionality of that module.

And last but not least, of course there are differences between ptys
on different platforms and the helper script has to paper over that.
Of course.

Really, this commit took me longer to put together than I care to admit.

Caveat emptor: this commit takes the hacky ^D feeding to the slave out
of tools/test.py and puts it in the *.in input files. You can also feed
other control characters to tests, like ^C or ^Z, simply by inserting
them into the corresponding input file. I think that's nice.

Fixes: nodejs/build#1820
Fixes: #28489

PR-URL: #28600
Backport-PR-URL: #28826
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
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Landed on v10.x-staging

@BethGriggs BethGriggs closed this Jul 25, 2019
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