Subject: Re: bug#28506: coreutils 8.28 test suite hangs on APFS filesystem

From: Jack Howarth <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 13:34:02 -0400

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Jack Howarth <
[email-masked]> wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>> On 22/09/17 20:07, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> > Is is a wait or a cpu spin?
>> > Could you use the equivalent of strace on your platform to see what's
>> happening?
>>
>> Offlist Jack sent a profile showing /usr/bin/FILE was waiting on input.
>> That was the result of a silly typo in the script, which the attached
>> should fix.  I don't know what that command does, nor why it's
>> specifically
>> a problem on APFS, but hopefully this fixes things.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Pádraig.
>>
>>
> Pádraig.
>     Thanks. I can confirm that eliminates testsuite hang seen on 10.13
> with APFS volumes. FYI, the stock APFS is still case-insensitive on
> darwin17.
>         Jack
> ps The only failure seen in the test suite is...
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> FAIL: tests/touch/trailing-slash.sh
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Pádraig,
    Attached are the tests/touch/trailing-slash.log and
tests/touch/trailing-slash.trs files generated from a build on an APFS
volume running 10.13 in case you can identify why that test is failing.
          Jack