Re: [dev-context] regression testing Makefile

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:

Yeah, the mktexnam processes spawned by pdftex won't easily die. In the python wrapper to handle timeouts and large logfiles, I had to do a bit of work: change the process group of the texexec process to a new one, let its children inherit that pgrp, and then do killpg on the whole bunch. Without the process group trick, it's not easy to find and kill the untamed processes.

IIRC, you can inhibit all the auto-mktex scripts with a setting in texmf.cnf or mktex.cnf (or something). If these programs are needed, the test was almost certainly failed anyway. Best, Taco