GNU bug report logs - #9737
misc/timeout-group: spurious test failure on SLES 10.3 (coreutils 8.14)

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>
Cc: 9737-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9737: misc/timeout-group: spurious test failure on SLES 10.3
	(coreutils 8.14)
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:08:43 +0100

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On 10/12/2011 03:05 PM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> I don't wanna ruin your day (by reporting on 0-day old 8.14), but ...
> 
> On a virtual SLES 10.3 system with 2 Xeons (E5420  @ 2.50GHz),
> the above test failed - but just once.
> 
> I cannot reproduce the error. I tried ~30 times, once with low system
> load and once with a load of about 10.
> 
> Fortunately, I saved the logfile before retrying.
> Ideas?
> 
> Berny

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

cheers,
Pádraig.

[timeout-group-race.diff (text/plain, attachment)]

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