Wait for cron process to finish properly

[fredden]

Description

When running bin/magento cron:run, several background processes are spawned. The intent of the <magentoCron /> XML node is to run certain cron groups to completion. However, as the actual processing may happen in a background process, the test-suite typically does not behave as expected. (This is a race condition; see magento/magento2#37511 for further details.)

This pull request solves this race condition by using the internal 'bootstrap' argument to indicate that the cron process is already standalone. This means that no additional background processes will be run and the jobs complete in the foreground process. The test-suite will then wait for this process to terminate before proceeding. This is the desired behaviour.

Contribution checklist

• Pull request has a meaningful description of its purpose
• All commits are accompanied by meaningful commit messages
• All new or changed code is covered with unit/verification tests (if applicable)
• All automated tests passed successfully (all builds are green)
• Changes to Framework doesn't have backward incompatible changes for tests or have related Pull Request with fixes to tests

[fredden]

Please don't let any test failures in magento/magento2#37511 block this pull request. It's stand-alone on purpose.

[KevinBKozan]

@fredden Thank you for your contribution! We merged your commits in an internal PR after testing the functionality changes. This PR should automatically close once they are synced 👍

[fredden]

@KevinBKozan thanks for the update. Do you know when a new release will be tagged which includes this change?

[KevinBKozan]

@fredden I believe it should be very soon, a day or two at most. Internal PR to finalize the version was already merged so the new tag should be out soon!

[fredden]

I can see that version 4.3.2 has now been released which includes this change.