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| author | Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl> | 2021-11-06 13:05:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl> | 2021-11-06 13:46:51 +0100 |
| commit | 2a4d433b1f194595c819cec88361a1e402ebadb8 (patch) | |
| tree | f882b1233cfc476cbb5763c39033fa0f0c7c09f1 /nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml | |
| parent | ac971cdc544955ac1d590182aeb25c4c8cacd46e (diff) | |
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nixosTest: Add xclip as example of stdout blocker
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml index 543f3d61980..e3cbb451acd 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml @@ -450,9 +450,10 @@ <para> The NixOS VM test framework, <literal>pkgs.nixosTest</literal>/<literal>make-test-python.nix</literal>, - now requires non-terminating commands such as - <literal>succeed("foo &")</literal> to close - stdout. This can be done with a redirect such as + now requires detaching commands such as + <literal>succeed("foo &")</literal> and + <literal>succeed("foo | xclip -i")</literal> to + close stdout. This can be done with a redirect such as <literal>succeed("foo >&2 &")</literal>. This breaking change was necessitated by a race condition causing tests to fail or hang. It applies to all methods that |