[Mesa-dev] Piglit on windows

[Jose Fonseca]

On 10/10/17 16:31, Kyriazis, George wrote:
> Hello…
> 
> Piglit on windows prints out a message saying “Timeout are not implemented on Windows.”.  These timeouts are the test timeouts in case a test hangs.
> 
> What do people do when running piglit on windows and they hit a timeout?  I would imagine there would be a non-zero number of people running piglit on windows on a regular basis, as a regression tool...
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> George

I haven't been involved into piglit Windows testing lately, so my 
understanding might be dated.

I believe that we have timeouts when we test piglit on Windows. It's not 
implemented on piglit python framework itself, but rather on VMware 
testing framework (that driver piglit, and a bunch of other tests.)

That said, I believe it would be better long term if piglit framework 
had timeouts on Windows, as it can probably track that with finer 
granularity than we do now by putting a timeout on whole piglit or 
subsets of piglit tests.

python3's subprocess module has timeout options, so it should be 
relatively easy to implement on top of it, in a cross-platform manner.

Jose