GNU bug report logs - #12820
gnulib testsuite failure in latest master

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 08:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 13894

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Nix <nix <at> esperi.org.uk>
Cc: 12820 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12820: FWIW, this is still happening as of gnulib 4a82904
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:08:50 -0800

On 02/27/13 10:25, Nix wrote:
> st1.st_ctime: 1361977729; st2.st_ctime: 1361977729; compare: 0; get_stat_ctime_ns(st1): 613474299, get_stat_ctime_ns(st2): 613474299
> 
> i.e. the nsec values are identical. This is surely valid: it just means
> the two stats were carried out in the same 1ns interval. All these
> asserts should be <= 0. 

No, because there's a "nap ()" in between, which means
the time stamps can't possibly be generated in the same
1 ns interval, at least, not if nap () is working.

Perhaps there's a bug in nap () but if so the bug should
be fixed there.
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