# \`make testall\` noninteractively?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-testall-noninteractively/44447>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, build\
**Created:** [August 6, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-testall-noninteractively/44447 "2020-08-06T19:26:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![afbarnard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/afbarnard/32/16869_2.png) [@afbarnard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/afbarnard)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-testall-noninteractively/44447/1 "2020-08-06T19:26:58Z")

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Is there a way to run `make testall` noninteractively? I want to do something along the lines of

```
nice make testall1 &> make.tests.julia-1.5.0.$(date +'%Y%m%d-%H%M%S').log &

```

but the tests hang. Presumably this has to do with line 179 in `test/runtests.jl` which is trying to read a character. Maybe having only 1 thread is causing a deadlock in this case. (I haven’t read the code that deeply yet.) And maybe `isa(stdin, Base.TTY)` isn’t quite the right thing for testing interactiveness?

```
julia --print 'isa(stdin, Base.TTY)' &> out.txt # not interactive!
cat out.txt # true

```

More worryingly, if I run the tests interactively (just `nice make testall1`), I can’t interrupt them with Ctrl+c nor suspend them with Ctrl+z; I have to kill them from a separate terminal. This seems buggy. Is this intended behavior? (Again maybe this is only an issue with 1 thread.)

I have a build script that doesn’t work any more due to this. (I haven’t run the script in a while as I’m just getting back to Julia after a few years – pre Julia 1.) Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![afbarnard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/afbarnard/32/16869_2.png) [@afbarnard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/afbarnard)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-testall-noninteractively/44447/2 "2020-08-06T19:33:52Z")

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Yep, there’s definitely something with 1 vs. more threads here. Running the tests with two threads allows me to Ctrl+c but not Ctrl+z. However, Ctrl+c doesn’t kill the two workers! `make` exits but two `julia` processes are still running. (Thankfully, there are some warnings about forcibly interrupting busy workers and not being able to remove a process, however.)