Bug #11613: test_aspawn_too_long_path creates too many processes

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: DONE

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

At least on FreeBSD, spawn("echo|echo|echo|echo|echo|echo|echo| ...20000 times") success and create 20000 zombie processes.
To prevent this you can add rlimit_nproc: 1 because it tests sh itself, don't test spawned echos.

diff --git a/test/ruby/test_process.rb b/test/ruby/test_process.rb
index 32dcaed..7877171 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_process.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_process.rb
@@ -1600,7 +1600,7 @@ class TestProcess < Test::Unit::TestCase
       assert_raise(*exs, mesg) do
         begin
           loop do
-            Process.spawn(cmds.join(sep), [STDOUT, STDERR]=>File::NULL)
+            Process.spawn(cmds.join(sep), [STDOUT, STDERR]=>File::NULL, rlimit_nproc: 1)
             min = [cmds.size, min].max
             cmds *= 100
           end

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN to 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset r52229.

---

Add rlimit_nproc to avoid to create many process [Bug #11613]

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: REQUIRED

ruby_2_1 r52358 merged revision(s) 52229,52273,52277,52357.

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: DONE

Backporrted r52222,r52229,r52273,r52277,r52357 into ruby_2_2 branch at r52779.