Subject: Re: bug#73036: 29.4; Test failure in erc-networks--id-sort-buffers

From: "J.P." <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2024 23:44:02 -0700

Hi Ulrich,

Author of shoddy test here. Apologies for the annoyance.

Ulrich Mueller <[email-masked]> writes:

> Looking at the code, the test creates three buffers, then sorts them by
> time. Clock resolution on HPPA appears to be 4 milliseconds, so it is
> not unlikely that the buffers end up with exactly the same timestamp and
> sorting fails.

Makes sense to me.

> Attached patch fixes the problem. Is it OK to install it on the emacs-30
> branch?

I guess that's up to the Emacs maintainers (Eli Cc'd).

Thanks,
J.P.