[PATCH] make flapping smbcontrol test more informative

[Ralph Böhme]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 09:07:06PM +1300, Douglas Bagnall via samba-technical wrote:
> And then I thought: with multi-process fork-on-demand LDAP, we should
> expect a race between listing the processes and pinging them. They 
> disappear all the time.
> 
>         processes = self.msg_ctx.irpc_all_servers()
>         for p in processes:
>             for id in p.ids:
>                 if p.name != "samba":
>                     self.check_run("%s %d %s" % (COMMAND, id.pid, PING),
>                                    msg="trying to ping %s" % p.name)
> 
> so I was wrong here:
> 
> >>> This is a canary, I suspect -- the test itself is sound (sort of),
> 
> the test is not sound.

hehe, ouch! Good catch! :)

-slow

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