Bug 879260 - RFE: add function to to wait till a port is opened
Summary: RFE: add function to to wait till a port is opened
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 970143
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: beakerlib
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Petr Muller
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2012-11-22 13:26 UTC by Jan Vcelak
Modified: 2016-09-20 02:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-06-07 11:06:46 UTC
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Description Jan Vcelak 2012-11-22 13:26:39 UTC
Description of problem:

Beakerlib should provide some function to repeat a given command periodically till executed successfully or till some timeout expires.

For example: we run OpenLDAP server via valgrind on the background and need to wait till the initialization is finished (tcp/389 port is available).

"sleep" is a dummy solution, because it slows down the test on fast machines and can cause the test to fail on slow machines.

Here is a simple proposal, how it could work:

function rlTryRepeat()
{
  command=$1
  retries=${2:-30}

  for (( retry=0; retry < $retries; retry++ )); do
    $command && return 0 || sleep 1
  done
  return 1
}

function rlWaitTcpPort()
{
  port=$1
  host=${2:-localhost}
  retries=$3

  rlTryRepeat "nc -z $host $port" $retries
}

Usage:

rlRun "valgrind ... slapd ... &"
rlWaitTcpPort 389
rlRun "ldapsearch ..."

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Comment 2 Petr Muller 2013-06-07 11:06:46 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 970143 ***


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