No coverage from killed subprocesses

[wucke13]

I have the following setup:

• a bin crate
• an integration test that uses https://crates.io/crates/test_bin to call the binary with some arguments, spawning it as a child process
• the binary is a server, which does not terminate ever on its own
  • thus the integration test kills the server child process, that is after it verified that the server works properly 😏

With this setup, zero coverage is reported. What could be the culprit, and how can I get cargo-llvm-cov to report some coverage out of this setup?

Edit: It turns out I get a sensible coverage report if the process exit()s instead of being killed. Is there any way around this?

[taiki-e]

This is a compiler bug (or limitation). (Also, even exit() is not handled well by compilers on some platforms: rust-lang/rust#77553)

[wucke13]

@taiki-e Thank your for the quick response. A note though: rust-lang/rust#77553 mentions something akin

This bug does not occur on Linux or MacOS.

However, I see this on a Linux machine.

[taiki-e]

rust-lang/rust#77553 is about std::process::exit(), your issue is probably about SIGKILL.

std::process::exit() works on linux and macos, but SIGKILL probably does not work on any platform.

[KaareKristensen]

If exit is only used in the main function a quick and dirty way of circumventing this issue is to let main return an std::process::ExitCode instead.

[taiki-e]

I have found an option that potentially handles this well (#280), but something seems to be missing to actually make it work.