Tracing is not being flushed before `dsc` exits
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Description
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Summary
Particularly on macOS, some traces do not get emitted which the tracing test is expecting. Tracing is async and it seems that there is a race condition where the dsc process exists before the buffered traces get written out.
Steps to reproduce
During CI, typically it'll be macOS that fails due to a trace test can't find the trace, but likely succeeds on rerun
Expected behavior
all traces get written out
Actual behavior
some traces do not
Error details
Environment data
Name Value
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PSVersion 7.6.0-preview.2
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId 7.6.0-preview.2
OS Darwin 24.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:24:06 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103
Platform Unix
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0
Version
dsc 3.1.0-preview.1
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