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='2020-09-28 21:06:36 -0500'>2020-09-28</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/tests/guix-lint.sh?id=d8934360d2453a403b5433e71d09188e4ed23b57'>tests: Simplify shell exit status negation;</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* tests/guix-archive.sh, tests/guix-build-branch.sh, tests/guix-build.sh,
tests/guix-daemon.sh, tests/guix-download.sh, tests/guix-environment.sh,
tests/guix-gc.sh, tests/guix-git-authenticate.sh, tests/guix-graph.sh,
tests/guix-hash.sh, tests/guix-lint.sh, tests/guix-pack-relocatable.sh,
tests/guix-pack.sh, tests/guix-package-aliases.sh, tests/guix-package-net.sh,
tests/guix-package.sh: Use the shell '!' keyword to negate command exit status
in place of 'if ...; then false; else true; fi'
</span></span></td><td>Eric Bavier</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-08-23 23:05:16 +0200'>2020-08-23</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/tests/guix-lint.sh?id=d10474c38d58bdc676e64336769dc2e00cdfa8ed'>lint: formatting: Gracefully handle relative file names.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>Fixes &lt;https://bugs.gnu.org/42543&gt;.
Reported by Jack Hill &lt;jackhill@jackhill.us&gt;.

* guix/lint.scm (check-formatting): Always return a list (previously we
would return #f when 'search-path' returns #f).  Check whether
LOCATION's file is a relative file name.  Return a warning if not.
* tests/guix-lint.sh: Add test.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2019-12-08 23:14:03 +0100'>2019-12-08</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/tests/guix-lint.sh?id=7282f9496793227d7ac6f902976aecb663068ec1'>lint: Add '--load-path' option.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* guix/scripts/lint.scm (%options): Add '--load-path' option.
* doc/guix.texi: Document it.
* tests/guix-lint.sh: Test it.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès &lt;ludo@gnu.org&gt;
</span></span></td><td>zimoun</td></tr>