Subject: bug#13185: Test case 'misc/timeout-group' failed

From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:45:45 +0100

On 12/18/2012 01:48 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>
> So the skip was on purpose and to avoid signal propagation issues seen
> on some older systems:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=v8.14-30-g6603e37
> 
> This initial failure is worrying, though may be a false positive
> due to your shell or something. What versions of dash, bash, kernel
> do you have there?
>

  $ bash --version
  GNU bash, version 4.2.36(2)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

  $ dpkg -l dash | sed -n '$p'
  ii  dash  0.5.7-3  i386  POSIX-compliant shell

  $ uname -rsv
  Linux 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 26 01:16:22 UTC 2009

> I can't reproduce at all here with any shell, though you might
> have older versions.
> 
> What is your system /bin/sh, dash or bash?
>
Bash.  But the affected coreutils testsuite run was done with a
more bleeding-edge version of bash, explicitly selected as SHELL
(and CONFIG_SHELL).

> Note you can force a particular SHELL as follows,
> and it would be interesting to see if the issue affected all shells.
>
The fact is that I haven't been able to reproduce the issue after
the first failure.  So it won't be easy to ensure whether it has
been fixed...

> make check TESTS='tests/misc/timeout-group.sh' SUBDIRS=. VERBOSE=yes SHELL=bash
>
> Hopefully we can come up with a skip for this case too.
> 
> thanks,
> Pádraig.

Regards,
  Stefano