selftests: drv-net: add a warning for bkg + shell + terminate

Joe Damato reports that some shells will fork before running
the command when python does "sh -c $cmd", while bash on my
machine does an exec of $cmd directly.

This will have implications for our ability to terminate
the child process on various configurations of bash and
other shells. Warn about using

	bkg(... shell=True, termininate=True)

most background commands can hopefully exit cleanly (exit_wait).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/Z7Yld21sv_Ip3gQx@LQ3V64L9R2
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Acked-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Tested-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219234956.520599-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Jakub Kicinski 2025-02-19 15:49:50 -08:00
parent ca57d1c56f
commit 846742f7e3

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@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ class bkg(cmd):
self.terminate = not exit_wait
self.check_fail = fail
if shell and self.terminate:
print("# Warning: combining shell and terminate is risky!")
print("# SIGTERM may not reach the child on zsh/ksh!")
def __enter__(self):
return self