[perl #133067] Re: t/io/openpid.t makes test harness sluggish;reduce sleep time

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On 2/14/18 17:45, James E Keenan wrote:
> When you run 'make test_harness' often enough, you quickly become aware
> that, despite setting $TEST_JOBS to an appropriate value, certain test
> files are slow and block the forward movement of the harness.  The first
> such file I notice is t/io/openpid.t, which contains two commands which
> each sleep for 30 seconds.
> 
> The amount of 'sleep' requested has been unchanged since commit c8fc8fb0
> in 2003.  Do we still need to sleep so much?  If not, please review

I fully admit that I have no recollection of the reasoning 15 years later.

> patch attached.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan
> 

• [perl #133067] Re: t/io/openpid.t makes test harness sluggish;reduce sleep time by Jarkko Hietaniemi