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Nadav Har'El 02fb6f33fb test/*/run: improve signal handling in test runners
When a user runs a script and presses control-C, a SIGINT (signal 2)
gets sent to every process in the script's "process group". By default,
every subprocess started by a script joins the parent's process group.

Our test/*/run test-runner scripts typically start two processes: scylla
and pytest. If we keep them in the same process group, a control-C
would kill them in a random order and that is ugly - if Scylla is
killed before pytest, we'll see a few test failures before pytest
is finally killed. So the existing code put Scylla in its own process
group, and killed it on exit after killing pytest.

But there were a few inconsistencies in our implementation, leading
to some annoying behaviors:

1. Doing "kill -2" to the runner's process (not a control-C which sends
   a signal to the process group) caused scylla and pytest to be killed
   on exit. So far so good. But, we should kill their entire process
   groups, not just the one process. This is important when pytest starts
   its own subprocesses (as happens in cql-pytest/test_tools.py),
   otherwise they just remain running.
   We need to call pgkill() instead of kill(), but also we forgot
   to start a new process group for the pytest run - so this patch
   fixes it.

2. Our exit handler - which kills the subprocesses - only gets called
   on signals which Python catches, and this is only SIGINT. Killing
   the test runner with SIGTERM or SIGHUP before this patch caused
   the subprocesses to be left running. In this patch we also catch
   SIGTERM and SIGHUP, so our exit handler is also run in that case.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>

Closes #10629
2022-05-23 12:24:19 +03:00
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