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Interrupting tests may leave stuff running

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start by tracing how the root helper subprocess is launched and how RSpec handles Control+C; the issue does not name specific files or tests. Reproduce an interrupted test run, then verify that the helper receives SIGINT reliably, is not signaled twice, and that the first interrupt does not misleadingly fail the current test.

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Description

bug lowprio

Sometimes interrupting a test run with Control+C leaves services in the background. The "root helper" subprocess doesn't seem to receive SIGINT reliably. Sometimes it receives it twice IIRC.

Also, the root helper is interrupted on the first control+c which only causes rspec to wait for the current test to finish. This is likely to cause the current test to fail in a misleading way.

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Ruby
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