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authorSimon Cornish <[email protected]>2016-04-25 22:21:07 -0700
committerSimon Cornish <[email protected]>2016-06-01 14:56:24 +0200
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Don't kill old erlang if HEART_NO_KILL is set
If the environment variable HEART_NO_KILL is set then heart won't kill the old erlang process. This is desirable if the command executed by heart takes care of this.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel')
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml10
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/test/heart_SUITE.erl40
2 files changed, 48 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml
index 9da4773f2d..bfb4ce45e6 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml
@@ -89,6 +89,16 @@
<pre>
% <input>erl -heart -env HEART_KILL_SIGNAL SIGABRT ...</input></pre>
+ <p> If heart should <b>not</b> kill the Erlang runtime system, this can be indicated
+ using the environment variable <c><![CDATA[HEART_NO_KILL]]></c>.
+ This can be useful if the command executed by heart takes care of this,
+ for example as part of a specific cleanup sequence.
+ If unset, the default behaviour will be to kill as described above.
+ </p>
+
+ <pre>
+% <input>erl -heart -env HEART_NO_KILL 1 ...</input></pre>
+
<p>
Furthermore, <c><![CDATA[ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS]]></c> has the following behaviour on
<c>heart</c>:
diff --git a/lib/kernel/test/heart_SUITE.erl b/lib/kernel/test/heart_SUITE.erl
index 39cd29cea0..a848bc78f7 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/test/heart_SUITE.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/test/heart_SUITE.erl
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@
set_cmd/1, clear_cmd/1, get_cmd/1,
callback_api/1,
options_api/1,
- dont_drop/1, kill_pid/1]).
+ dont_drop/1, kill_pid/1, heart_no_kill/1]).
-export([init_per_testcase/2, end_per_testcase/2]).
--export([start_heart_stress/1, mangle/1, suicide_by_heart/0]).
+-export([start_heart_stress/1, mangle/1, suicide_by_heart/0, non_suicide_by_heart/0]).
-define(DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS, 120).
@@ -507,6 +507,30 @@ do_kill_pid(_Config) ->
false
end.
+
+heart_no_kill(suite) ->
+ [];
+heart_no_kill(doc) ->
+ ["Tests that heart doesn't kill the old erlang node when ",
+ "HEART_NO_KILL is set."];
+heart_no_kill(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
+ ok = do_no_kill(Config).
+
+do_no_kill(_Config) ->
+ Name = heart_test,
+ {ok,Node} = start_node_run(Name,[],non_suicide_by_heart,[]),
+ io:format("Node is ~p~n", [Node]),
+ ok = wait_for_node(Node,15),
+ io:format("wait_for_node is ~p~n", [ok]),
+ erlang:monitor_node(Node, true),
+ receive {nodedown,Node} -> false
+ after 30000 ->
+ io:format("Node didn't die..\n"),
+ rpc:call(Node,init,stop,[]),
+ io:format("done init:stop..\n"),
+ ok
+ end.
+
wait_for_node(_,0) ->
false;
wait_for_node(Node,N) ->
@@ -625,6 +649,18 @@ suicide_by_heart() ->
sallad
end.
+non_suicide_by_heart() ->
+ P = open_port({spawn,"heart -ht 11 -pid "++os:getpid()},[exit_status, {env, {"HEART_NO_KILL", "1"}}, {packet,2}]),
+ receive X -> X end,
+ %% Just hang and wait for heart to timeout
+ receive
+ {P,{exit_status,_}} ->
+ ok
+ after
+ 20000 ->
+ exit(timeout)
+ end.
+
%% generate a module from binary
generate(Module, Attributes, FunStrings) ->