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[DRAFT PATCH 2/2] Signal list cycles in ‘length’ etc.

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25605 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 25606 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25606: patches installed for 25605, 25606
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:47:42 +0000

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Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> 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?

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