Skip to content

Launch cygserver in tests to avoid long pauses with procServ #672

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
Chsudeepta merged 1 commit into from
Jun 8, 2026
Merged

Launch cygserver in tests to avoid long pauses with procServ #672

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
11 changes: 10 additions & 1 deletion run_tests.py
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
import glob
import importlib
import os
import subprocess
import sys
import traceback
import unittest
Expand All @@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
TestEmulatorData,
)
from utils.free_ports import get_free_ports
from utils.ioc_launcher import IOCS_DIR, IocLauncher
from utils.ioc_launcher import EPICS_TOP, IOCS_DIR, IocLauncher
from utils.test_modes import TestModes


Expand Down Expand Up @@ -522,6 +523,14 @@ def run_tests(
if arguments.tests_mode == "NOSIM":
tests_mode = TestModes.NOSIM

# start cygserver in background if not running already
# this is needed for procServ launchers on developer machines
# as domain accounts seem to make a log ldap query on accounts so we need
# cygserver to cache this
# we start it before cleanup_subprocs_on_process_exit() so it will
# remain running as it takes a while to start and is safe to leave running
subprocess.run([os.path.join(EPICS_TOP, "tools", "master", "start_cygserver.bat")], shell=True)

# make sure we close any subprocesses we create when we exit
cleanup_subprocs_on_process_exit()

Expand Down
Loading