From 2a4d433b1f194595c819cec88361a1e402ebadb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Hensing Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 13:05:12 +0100 Subject: nixosTest: Add xclip as example of stdout blocker --- nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml') 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 @@ The NixOS VM test framework, pkgs.nixosTest/make-test-python.nix, - now requires non-terminating commands such as - succeed("foo &") to close - stdout. This can be done with a redirect such as + now requires detaching commands such as + succeed("foo &") and + succeed("foo | xclip -i") to + close stdout. This can be done with a redirect such as succeed("foo >&2 &"). This breaking change was necessitated by a race condition causing tests to fail or hang. It applies to all methods that -- cgit 1.4.1