The Guile process taking the role of PID 1 during Guix builds does not reap
zombie processes, which makes them continue responding to "kill -0".

--- a/src/testsuite/stop-server.sh	2015-02-05 11:24:00.535908842 +0100
+++ b/src/testsuite/stop-server.sh	2015-02-05 11:25:00.264351349 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,21 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # ngIRCd Test Suite
 
+process_is_alive(){
+    ! process_is_dead "$1" && ! process_is_undead "$1"
+}
+
+process_is_dead(){
+    ! kill -0 "$1"
+}
+
+process_is_undead(){
+    case $(ps -p "$1" -o state=) in
+        (Z*) true ;;
+        (*) false ;;
+    esac
+}
+
 [ -z "$srcdir" ] && srcdir=`dirname $0`
 
 # read in functions
@@ -24,7 +40,7 @@
 
 # waiting ...
 for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
-  kill -0 $pid > /dev/null 2>&1; r=$?
+  process_is_alive $pid > /dev/null 2>&1; r=$?
   if [ $r -ne 0 ]; then
     echo " ok".
     exit 0
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<tr><td><span title='2016-04-03 14:19:09 +0200'>2016-04-03</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/tests/gnu-maintenance.scm?id=a9edb211e733b8b34e67ec3b4450567e9376986f'>build: Add a Guile custom test driver using SRFI-64.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>Before that '.log' files for scheme tests were fragmented and not
included in test-suite.log.  This unifies the semantics of SRFI-64 API
with Automake test suite.

* build-aux/test-driver.scm: New file.
* Makefile.am (SCM_LOG_DRIVER, AM_SCM_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS): New variables.
(SCM_LOG_COMPILER, AM_SCM_LOG_FLAGS): Delete variables.
(AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE to 0.
* test-env.in: Silence guix-daemon.
* doc/guix.texi (Running the Test Suite): Describe how to display the
detailed results.  Bug reports require only 'test-suite.log' file.
* tests/base32.scm, tests/build-utils.scm, tests/builders.scm,
tests/challenge.scm, tests/cpan.scm, tests/cpio.scm, tests/cran.scm,
tests/cve.scm, tests/derivations.scm, tests/elpa.scm,
tests/file-systems.scm, tests/gem.scm, tests/gexp.scm,
tests/gnu-maintenance.scm, tests/grafts.scm, tests/graph.scm,
tests/gremlin.scm, tests/hackage.scm, tests/hash.scm,
tests/import-utils.scm, tests/lint.scm, tests/monads.scm, tests/nar.scm,
tests/packages.scm, tests/pk-crypto.scm, tests/pki.scm,
tests/profiles.scm, tests/publish.scm, tests/pypi.scm,
tests/records.scm, tests/scripts-build.scm, tests/scripts.scm,
tests/services.scm, tests/sets.scm, tests/size.scm, tests/snix.scm,
tests/store.scm, tests/substitute.scm, tests/syscalls.scm,
tests/system.scm, tests/ui.scm, tests/union.scm, tests/upstream.scm,
tests/utils.scm: Don't exit at the end of test groups.
* tests/containers.scm: Likewise.  Use 'test-skip' instead of exiting
with error code 77.
</span></span></td><td>Mathieu Lirzin</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2015-12-07 23:32:01 +0100'>2015-12-07</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/tests/gnu-maintenance.scm?id=202440e07a9dd40dc4b9814a91c67e24554d53c1'>gnu-maintenance: Add tests for 'release-file?'.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* tests/gnu-maintenance.scm: New file.
* Makefile.am (SCM_TESTS): Add it.
* guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (release-file?): Export.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>