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+// Copyright 2015 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// The stress utility is intended for catching of episodic failures.
+// It runs a given process in parallel in a loop and collects any failures.
+// Usage:
+// 	$ stress ./fmt.test -test.run=TestSometing -test.cpu=10
+// You can also specify a number of parallel processes with -p flag;
+// instruct the utility to not kill hanged processes for gdb attach;
+// or specify the failure output you are looking for (if you want to
+// ignore some other episodic failures).
+package main
+
+import (
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"regexp"
+	"runtime"
+	"syscall"
+	"time"
+)
+
+var (
+	flagP       = flag.Int("p", runtime.NumCPU(), "run `N` processes in parallel")
+	flagTimeout = flag.Duration("timeout", 10*time.Minute, "timeout each process after `duration`")
+	flagKill    = flag.Bool("kill", true, "kill timed out processes if true, otherwise just print pid (to attach with gdb)")
+	flagFailure = flag.String("failure", "", "fail only if output matches `regexp`")
+)
+
+func main() {
+	flag.Parse()
+	if *flagP <= 0 || *flagTimeout <= 0 || len(flag.Args()) == 0 {
+		flag.Usage()
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	var failureRe *regexp.Regexp
+	if *flagFailure != "" {
+		var err error
+		if failureRe, err = regexp.Compile(*flagFailure); err != nil {
+			fmt.Println("bad failure regexp:", err)
+			os.Exit(1)
+		}
+	}
+	res := make(chan []byte)
+	for i := 0; i < *flagP; i++ {
+		go func() {
+			for {
+				cmd := exec.Command(flag.Args()[0], flag.Args()[1:]...)
+				done := make(chan bool)
+				if *flagTimeout > 0 {
+					go func() {
+						select {
+						case <-done:
+							return
+						case <-time.After(*flagTimeout):
+						}
+						if !*flagKill {
+							fmt.Printf("process %v timed out\n", cmd.Process.Pid)
+							return
+						}
+						cmd.Process.Signal(syscall.SIGABRT)
+						select {
+						case <-done:
+							return
+						case <-time.After(10 * time.Second):
+						}
+						cmd.Process.Kill()
+					}()
+				}
+				out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
+				close(done)
+				if err != nil && (failureRe == nil || failureRe.Match(out)) {
+					out = append(out, fmt.Sprintf("\n\nERROR: %v\n", err)...)
+				} else {
+					out = []byte{}
+				}
+				res <- out
+			}
+		}()
+	}
+	runs := 0
+	ticker := time.NewTicker(5 * time.Second).C
+	for {
+		select {
+		case out := <-res:
+			runs++
+			if len(out) == 0 {
+				continue
+			}
+			f, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "go-stress")
+			if err != nil {
+				fmt.Printf("failed to create temp file: %v\n", err)
+				os.Exit(1)
+			}
+			f.Write(out)
+			f.Close()
+			if len(out) > 2<<10 {
+				out = out[:2<<10]
+			}
+			fmt.Printf("\n%s\n%s\n", f.Name(), out)
+		case <-ticker:
+			fmt.Printf("%v runs so far\n", runs)
+		}
+	}
+}