Surefire does not wait long enough for the forked VM and assumes it to be dead

private static ScheduledFuture<?> listenToShutdownCommands( CommandReader reader )
    {
        reader.addShutdownListener( createExitHandler( reader ) );
        AtomicBoolean pingDone = new AtomicBoolean( true );
        reader.addNoopListener( createPingHandler( pingDone ) );
        return JVM_TERMINATOR.scheduleAtFixedRate( createPingJob( pingDone, reader ),
                                                   0,PING_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS, SECONDS );
    }

private static Runnable createPingJob( final AtomicBoolean pingDone, final CommandReader reader  )
    {
        return new Runnable()
        {
            public void run()
            {
                boolean hasPing = pingDone.getAndSet( false );
                if ( !hasPing )
                {
                    exit( 1, KILL, reader, true );
                }
            }
        };
    }