working on more tests

tests/rand.lua

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+#!/usr/bin/lua
+-- a heavy duty test.
+-- makes thousends of random changes to the source tree
+-- checks every X changes if lsyncd managed to keep target tree in sync.
+
+require("posix")
+
+-- always makes the same "random", so failures can be debugged.
+math.randomseed(1) 
+
+-- escape codes to colorize output on terminal
+local c1="\027[47;34m"
+local c0="\027[0m"
+
+---
+-- writes colorized
+--
+function cwriteln(...)
+	io.write(c1)
+	io.write(...)
+	io.write(c0, "\n")
+end
+
+cwriteln("******************************************************************")
+cwriteln("* heavy duty tests duing randoms                                 *")
+cwriteln("******************************************************************")
+
+local lpid = posix.fork()
+if lpid < 0 then
+	cwriteln("ERROR: failed fork!")
+	os.exit(-1);
+end
+if lpid == 0 then
+	posix.exec("./lsyncd", "-nodaemon", "-log", "all", "-rsync", "src", "trg")
+	-- should not return
+	cwriteln("ERROR: failed to spawn lysncd!")
+	os.exit(-1);
+end
+
+
+posix.sleep(1)
+
+-- kills the lsyncd daemon
+posix.kill(lpid)
+local _, exitmsg, exitcode = posix.wait(lpid)
+cwriteln("Exitcode of Lsyncd = ", exitmsg, " ", exitcode)
+os.exit(lexitcode)
+