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Re: TEST_DIRECT flag and nptl eintr/stdio tests
Thanks for your response, Carlos! I am running a set of tests now and
then I will send in a set!
Thanks again for taking the time to respond! It's that kind of
dedication that makes open source a great community!
Will
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Carlos O'Donell
<carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Will Hawkins <whh8b@virginia.edu> wrote:
>> Sorry to respond to myself, but I think that I uncovered the problem.
>>
>> It appears that those tests rely on the fact that, by default, the
>> test-skeleton will only run the actual test for a fixed amount of time
>> before raising SIGALRM. However, when the TEST_DIRECT flag is set,
>> alarm() is not called before the test is executed. Therefore, it never
>> times out and simply keeps running and running.
>>
>> I am working on a fix now and I will submit a patch if/when I think
>> that I've resolved the issue.
>
> In a similar vein to this:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00828.html
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.