Re: (ITS#8623) test022-ppolicy can fail due to timing dependency between lockout and expiration tests

[subbarao@computer.org]

On 03/22/2017 03:19 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> Even better is to use the SLEEP variables instead of hard coded 
> values. Then they can be overridden in the test environment if 
> necessary for specific VMs.
>
> At the moment we have:
>
> quanah@ub16:~/git/openldap/openldap-head/tests/scripts$ grep SLEEP 
> defines.sh
> SLEEP0=${SLEEP0-1}
> SLEEP1=${SLEEP1-7}
> SLEEP2=${SLEEP2-15}
>
> It may be useful to add things like SLEEP10, SLEEP20, etc, and rebase 
> tests off of that.  1/7/15 seem rather odd increments (no pun intended!). 

This could well be a very good idea for broader reasons, but it probably 
would be less desirable as a sole solution for this particular 
situation, at least for my use case. In this case, I'm backporting 
2.4.44 for zesty to 14.04 LTS. Ideally, I want this to be a clean 
rebuild, without any code changes. I'm especially reluctant to maintain 
a customized package for something that doesn't affect the behavior of 
the actual software. So having more variable(s) that need to be tuned, 
and thus changed from the vanilla Ubuntu package, isn't too appealing :-)

Hopefully there's an agreeable solution to this issue that will make it 
work for everyone out of the box. In any case, I appreciate your and 
Howard's responses to this!

Regards,

     -Kartik