[PATCH] smbcontrol test fix

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 01:54:21PM +1300, Douglas Bagnall via samba-technical wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > We came up with a plan for smbcontrol in the office yesterday, so that
> > we should get fixed in coming days
> 
> The test is trying to ensure that the processes known to
> irpc_all_servers() are pingable, and the problem is that there are
> fleeting ldap_server processes that disappear before the ping.
> 
> What we do here is check the processes again when one fails to answer.
> If it has disappeared from the list then either it was one of those
> transitory processes and we can relax, or something very serious is
> going on (like perhaps our ping killed it). We attempt to distinguish
> between those cases by checking whether there is still a server that
> shares the dead one's name, as we'd expect in the forking case. I know
> you can imagine scenarios that escape this check, but I suspect they
> can be categorised under at least one of "we're hosed anyway",
> "outside the scope of this test", and "do you want this to keep
> flapping forever?".

:-). Hurrah - thanks Douglas !

Jeremy.