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-rwxr-xr-xtest/functional/test_runner.py7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/test/functional/test_runner.py b/test/functional/test_runner.py
index 41f9bde183..2fa48006f4 100755
--- a/test/functional/test_runner.py
+++ b/test/functional/test_runner.py
@@ -396,11 +396,12 @@ def run_tests(*, test_list, src_dir, build_dir, tmpdir, jobs=1, enable_coverage=
args = args or []
# Warn if bitcoind is already running
- # pidof might fail or return an empty string if bitcoind is not running
try:
- if subprocess.check_output(["pidof", "bitcoind"]) not in [b'']:
+ # pgrep exits with code zero when one or more matching processes found
+ if subprocess.run(["pgrep", "-x", "bitcoind"], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL).returncode == 0:
print("%sWARNING!%s There is already a bitcoind process running on this system. Tests may fail unexpectedly due to resource contention!" % (BOLD[1], BOLD[0]))
- except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError):
+ except OSError:
+ # pgrep not supported
pass
# Warn if there is a cache directory