testlib: add a small scrip to help process to synchronise using file
Creating and waiting for files is a robust way to synchronise two processes
running concurrently. We already use this approach in various tests. I am adding
a official script to do so before adding more usage of this.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8189
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/tests/testlib/wait-on-file Fri Feb 28 02:23:28 2020 +0100
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# wait up to TIMEOUT seconds until a WAIT_ON_FILE is created.
+#
+# In addition, this script can create CREATE_FILE once it is ready to wait.
+
+if [ $# -lt 2 ] || [ $# -gt 3 ]; then
+ echo $#
+ echo "USAGE: $0 TIMEOUT WAIT_ON_FILE [CREATE_FILE]"
+fi
+
+timer="$1"
+wait_on="$2"
+create=""
+if [ $# -eq 3 ]; then
+ create="$3"
+fi
+
+if [ -n "$create" ];
+then
+ touch "$create"
+ create=""
+fi
+while [ "$timer" -gt 0 ] && [ ! -f "$wait_on" ];
+do
+ timer=$(( timer - 1))
+ sleep 0.01
+done
+if [ "$timer" -le 0 ]; then
+ echo "file not created after $1 seconds: $wait_on" >&2
+ exit 1
+fi