1. Be assertive when claiming the pid of the background route monitor command,
not polite... (ie: $! will give you the pid, $? is just 0 there).
2. Since "wait 0" simply (always) exits with status 127, immediately (we
know without thinking that we have no child with pid 0) the waits were
ineffective - now (after fix#1) they work .. which requires the
route monitor that watches the arp -d to exit after 1 message, not 2,
as 1 is all it gets. (If there really should be 2, someone needs to
find out why the kernel is sending only 1 - I am not that someone).
3. The file contents need to be read only once, no matter how many patterns
we need to look for, save some work, and do it that way (this is not
really a bug,m but saving time for the ATF tests is always a good thing.)
Not sure if this will stop it randomly failing on bablyon5, but it might.
(The likely cause is that the "route.monitor" has not flushed its stdout
buffers at the time the "grep -A 3" [aside: why that way to read the file??]
is performed, so fails to find its expected output ... the route monitor would
get an extra message once interfaces start being destroyed, I assume, and
would exit then, flushing its buffer, but by then it is too late.
If that is/was the cause, then it should be fixed now.)
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