ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

>> Like you said, maybe it's possible that the marionette process got a
>> signal.  But why would that happen?
>
> I’m not sure!  It could be SIGPIPE or SIGCHLD, this is left as an
> exercise to you.  :-)  Seriously, you could register signal handlers and
> try to see what’s going on.

That's fair.  I'll do that if I actually need to figure out what's going
on with the sleep during the test.  For now, I don't have to sleep, so
it isn't a big deal yet.

>> I have a related question.  Is there a guarantee that the test case will
>> begin after the TOR service has started up?
>
> Most service tests start by waiting for the service to be up using
> something like:
>
>             (marionette-eval
>              '(begin
>                 (use-modules (gnu services herd))
>                 (start-service 'mcron))
>              marionette)
>
> That blocks until ‘mcron’ is up or it has failed to start.

That's another good way to do it!  Thank you for entertaining my
questions.

-- 
Chris