Subject: RE: bug#9737: misc/timeout-group: spurious test failure on SLES 10.3 (coreutils 8.14)

From: "Voelker, Bernhard" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:58:58 +0200

reopen 9737
thanks

Pádraig Brady wrote:

> Bah, this is just a racy test I think.
> Hopefully the attached fixes it.

Thank you for the patch.

I tried it 16 times:

* 14x PASS, execution time real < 0.4s

* 1x test failure (in the 5th run)

* 1x the test lasted 20s (in the 16th run)
  ... which means at least this is wrong:

  > * tests/misc/timeout-group: Increase the timeouts
  > passed to the timeout command, so that they're
  > effectively not used. <...>

Have a nice day,
Berny