Subject: Re: bug#25606: patches installed for 25605, 25606

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 08:32:27 -0800

On 02/07/2017 04:47 AM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> If they fail, shouldn't the test runner that runs these tests time out 
> after some time and mark them as failures? 

Not if the test runner is written in elisp. The loops are deep in the C 
code and are immune to elisp timeouts. (I don't know how the test runner 
works.)