when trying to run successful short tests from the Makefile timeout would not terminate. Rather it would wait until the time runs out. Excerpt from the manpage:
--foreground when not running timeout directly from a shell prompt, allow COMMAND to read from the TTY and get TTY signals; in this mode, chil‐ dren of COMMAND will not be timed out Signed-off-by: Bastian Koppelmann <kbast...@mail.uni-paderborn.de> --- tests/tcg/Makefile.target | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/tcg/Makefile.target b/tests/tcg/Makefile.target index 24d75a5801..34fd0e9f85 100644 --- a/tests/tcg/Makefile.target +++ b/tests/tcg/Makefile.target @@ -40,9 +40,10 @@ quiet-command = $(if $(V),$1,$(if $(2),@printf " %-7s %s\n" $2 $3 && $1, @$1)) # $1 = test name, $2 = cmd, $3 = desc ifdef CONFIG_USER_ONLY -run-test = $(call quiet-command, timeout $(TIMEOUT) $2 > $1.out,"TEST",$3) +run-test = $(call quiet-command, timeout --foreground $(TIMEOUT) $2 > $1.out, \ + "TEST",$3) else -run-test = $(call quiet-command, timeout $(TIMEOUT) $2,"TEST",$3) +run-test = $(call quiet-command, timeout --foreground $(TIMEOUT) $2,"TEST",$3) endif # $1 = test name, $2 = reference -- 2.30.1