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Fix race condition in test #337

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Fix race condition in test #337

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@kegsay kegsay commented Oct 11, 2023

Implements half of #243 in a different way which involves less error prone locking.

@kegsay kegsay added bug Something isn't working flake Tests that fail intermittently; sporadic false positives labels Oct 11, 2023
@@ -31,29 +50,31 @@ func TestDeviceTickerBasic(t *testing.T) {
DeviceID: "b",
})
time.Sleep(duration * 2)
if len(payloads) != 1 {
t.Fatalf("expected 1 callback, got %d", len(payloads))
result := payloads.clone()
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Why do we need to clone here, sorry?

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We'd need to lock every time we access the underlying slice, which could then lead to inconsistent results (e.g len=1 when len() is called, but then increases to len=2 later on. It's easier to snapshot the slice.

@kegsay kegsay merged commit fe624d5 into main Oct 11, 2023
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func setTimeSinceValue(val time.Duration) {
timeSinceMu.Lock()
timeSinceValue = time.Minute * 2
timeSinceMu.Unlock()
}
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val seems unused here?

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