On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Jack Howarth > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > ... > >> Is there any chance your failing test was via a python2 framework? I'm > >> asking (on Pádraig's behalf) because there is a known problem whereby > >> SIGPIPE is mishandled in that case, and that might explain this > >> failure, since the data-generation phase relies on SIGPIPE killing > >> this test's "yes" command. > > > > I doubt it as the hang doesn't happen under 10.13 when run on a JHFS > > formatted volume. > > How did you run the tests? > Actually, I forgot to mention that the coreutils test suite hang only occurred on the APFS volumes when the coreutils built against the gettext and libiconv from fink. A build outside of fink which didn't build against those packages didn't show the hang in the coreutils test suite. The fink gettext and libiconv packages that I am using are those from... https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/4955/ and https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/5004/ which are both patched for the format string strictness in High Sierra. I found that using --disable-nls in configuring coreutils was insufficient to suppress the test suite hang which I assume is due to the presence of... #define HAVE_LIBINTL_H 1 in the generated ./lib/config.h despite the presence of... /* #undef HAVE_DCGETTEXT */ /* #undef HAVE_GETTEXT */ when --disable-nls is used so it still could be a Unicode related change in APFS, no? Jack