Re: [PATCH 1/5] git-p4 tests: refactor, split out common functions

Pete Wyckoff [off-list ref] writes:

Yes, this is all very shoddy, and I suspect that I don't need the
initial kill_p4d as long as the other tests fail nicely.

But your point about killing the _wrong_ p4d is good.  But p4d
isn't friendly like other daemons that will drop a pid file for
help in future cleanup.  I can run it without the "-d", in which
case it does not daemonize.  Then I should be able to use shell
job control to kill off the one I started, hopefully.

Yeah, something like

	: start
	p4d &
        echo $! >$pidfile

        : stop
	while kill -0 $pidfile
        do
	        kill $pidfile
                sleep 1
	done

Finding an unused port is also a pain.

I think the way t55xx series assign LIB_HTTPD_PORT is an acceptable
compromise.