How to restart a server after an expected crash or shutdown in a test case?

There are now two ways how to do this:

1. Using "set debug=d,flag" and adding some DBUG_EXECUTE_IF("flag", abort()) we can trigger the server to crash at a specific place in the code. There is an example of this in crash_commit_before.test
This requires a debug compiled server so you need to add a "source include/have_debug.inc" at the beginning of the test.

2. There is also a new way to do it without using DBUG_. By using the new command in mysqltest called "shutdown_server"[1], we will tell the server to stop, wait a while(60 seconds) and finally kill it off. This way we get a reliable shutdown. The first testcase that uses this is events_restart.test

In both of these methods, the testcase has to write a small file before the "crash/shutdown", that file tells mysql-test-run.pl that it was an expected crash/shutdown. The server will be started up again with the same settings as before crash/shutdown.


[1] "shutdown_server" is a new command in mysqltest, not yet pushed to the main trees. It will appear in 5.1 and up.
The syntax is:
shutdown_server [timeout]
if the server's pid file is not gone after timeout seconds, the process will be killed. Default timeout value is 60 seconds.