Add KillAllBlocking() to android_commands.py.

build/android/pylib/android_commands.py

Index: build/android/pylib/android_commands.py
diff --git a/build/android/pylib/android_commands.py b/build/android/pylib/android_commands.py
index 62cb64b83a637da92273c07a0f048f7396ebd0a9..59b9c61b50163d205efa28a8b4a264d0f7e206ad 100644
--- a/build/android/pylib/android_commands.py
+++ b/build/android/pylib/android_commands.py
@@ -469,13 +469,39 @@ class AndroidCommands(object):
       process: name of the process to kill off
 
     Returns:
-      the number of processess killed
+      the number of processes killed
     """
     pids = self.ExtractPid(process)
     if pids:
       self.RunShellCommand('kill ' + ' '.join(pids))
     return len(pids)
 
+  def KillAllBlocking(self, process, timeout_sec):
+    """Blocking version of killall, connected via adb.
+
+    This waits until no process matching the corresponding name appears in ps'
+    output anymore.
+
+    Args:
+      process: name of the process to kill off
+      timeout_sec: the timeout in seconds
+
+    Returns:
+      the number of processes killed
+    """
+    pids = self.ExtractPid(process)
+    if pids:
+      self.RunShellCommand('kill ' + ' '.join(pids))

[bulach, 2012/10/08 13:57:56]

how about replacing 492-494 with:
if self.KillAll(process):

[Philippe, 2012/10/08 14:07:52]

Good point.

+      elapsed = 0
+      wait_period = 0.1
+      # Note that this doesn't take into account the time spent in ExtractPid().
+      while self.ExtractPid(process) and elapsed < timeout:
+        time.sleep(wait_period)
+        elapsed += wait_period
+      if elapsed >= timeout:
+        return 0
+    return len(pids)
+
   def StartActivity(self, package, activity, wait_for_completion=False,
                     action='android.intent.action.VIEW',
                     category=None, data=None,