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Re: Why do ^C tests fail on linux?
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Why do ^C tests fail on linux?
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at zwingli dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: 04 Jun 2001 17:21:44 -0500
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3B1BEED9.29726712@cygnus.com>
Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com> writes:
> Since I know that there is another test in the testsuite that
> tests the same thing (interrupt.exp), I checked to see if that
> was also failing, and discovered that it has been xfailed for
> i*86-pc-linux-gnu since 1996, with no comment to explain why.
I can't think of any reason this shouldn't work normally. Perhaps in
1996 Linux's signal handling or job control wasn't up to par, but
I think we can raise our expectations a bit nowadays.