RFR: 7903217: jtreg could try killing descendants of stuck test, before timing out the test [v4]

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:54:36 GMT, Gerard Ziemski <gziemski at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is an enhancement that aims to improve the robustness of the testing by attempting to quit any child processes (that are possibly stuck and are blocking the parent process from terminating) before timing out the target parent process.
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>> Aborting a process will flush its stdout/stderr streams, which will hopefully get captured in the test's log and provide additional clues as to why a test was timing out.
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>> This enhancement was locally tested with a handcrafted test that itself launched a child process that would get stuck on purpose and worked as intended.
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>> Hopefully, this will help debug issues such as [JDK-8286345](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8286345)
>
> Gerard Ziemski has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   return exit code if we had to cancel any child processes

Just a by-drive, I would prefer this to be opt-in and by default disabled. I like hanging processes to keep hanging in my tests, that way I can debug them the next morning if they are still around.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jtreg/pull/97