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proced-refine-with-update-test is racy

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From: Laurence Warne <laurencewarne <at> gmail.com>
To: Basil Contovounesios <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>, 63550 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63550: proced-refine-with-update-test is racy
Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 09:37:10 +0100

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Hi,

> The proced test `proced-refine-with-update-test` seems to have an update
race which makes it fail randomly. (This is on macOS, but I see no reason
it would be much different elsewhere.)

Strange, I can't seem to reproduce running it continuously (I'm on linux
also).  Though whilst looking over the test suite, I don't think I like the
approach I took.  I've attached a new patch which changes the test suite to
mock the list of active processes (of course comments welcome).

Are either of you able to test whether this fixes the test in question?
The change also makes the tests a lot faster to run and hopefully less
system dependent.

Thanks, Laurence

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