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

From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:47:42 +0000

Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> schrieb am Di., 7. Feb. 2017 um 17:32 Uhr:

> 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.)
>
>
How about running the Emacs binary wrapped in /usr/bin/timeout?