Subject: bug#75613: closed (Re: bug#75613: tail-c test fails on CentOS 6)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:20:02 +0000

Your bug report

#75613: tail-c test fails on CentOS 6

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#75613: tail-c test fails on CentOS 6
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>, Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:19:14 +0000
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On 16/01/2025 21:16, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2025-01-16 13:11, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I propose we at least adjust the test
>> to skip failures on older kernels, as in the attached.
> 
> Thanks, that looks good to me too.

Pushed.

Marking this as done.

cheers,
Pádraig

Subject: tail-c test fails on CentOS 6
From: Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:50:29 +0100
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On CentOS 6, there is a test failure:

FAIL: tests/tail/tail-c.sh

Log is attached. The command that fails is:

  timeout --verbose 1 tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom

And indeed, I can reproduce it manually:

  $ timeout --verbose 1 src/tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom
  timeout: Unrecognized option '--verbose'
  Try `timeout --help' for more information.

  $ src/timeout --verbose 1 src/tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom
  timeout: sending signal TERM to command 'src/tail'
  $ echo $?
  124