Test '-timeout 0' not reflected in execution

I am using Go 1.9.2 version and invoking the test with timeout disabled using -timeout 0 flag.

-timeout 0

go test my_module -run TestModule -v --race -timeout 0

But the test execution is getting timed out after default timeout of 10m.

*** Test killed: ran too long (10m0s).

2 Answers
2

It's test.timeout i.e.

test.timeout

go test my_module -run TestModule -v --race -test.timeout 0

Its the way the testing library is handling that flag value:

testing

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/adcecbe05ef812bc8ff477dec47720a2cfc273e3/src/testing/testing.go#L1299

It only uses the given value if the timeout is greater than 0. Therefore, by setting it to 0, it just uses the default (10m).

timeout

0

10m

But the code is anyway going to set it to Zero (0) as per the line https://github.com/golang/go/blob/adcecbe05ef812bc8ff477dec47720a2cfc273e3/src/testing/testing.go#L271. So passing the same value as part of external params will be behaving the same I guess

– Ashwin
Sep 17 '18 at 6:25

Zero (0)

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/adcecbe05ef812bc8ff477dec47720a2cfc273e3/src/testing/testing.go#L271

Right, if you had done -timeout 1, it would be set to 1 instead and be a very quick timeout.

– poy
Sep 17 '18 at 15:14

-timeout 1

1

So it doesn't solve the problem I have mentioned. How to get that working in this version ?

– Ashwin
Sep 18 '18 at 5:17

I'm not sure I understand your problem. Why do you want to have the test immediately timeout?

– poy
Oct 2 '18 at 2:01

All I want is to disable timeout for my go test. But currently if I use -timeout 0, the test still timesout after the default time of 10m

– Ashwin
Oct 4 '18 at 7:55

-timeout 0

10m

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