make tests process failures using cross-test-ssh

[Joseph Myers]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Steve Ellcey wrote:

> > Try making the mounts use acdirmax=0,acdirmin=0 (I'm not sure why that 
> > should help with the precise symptoms you mention, but I've known it to 
> > help with some NFS coherency issues in testing in the past).  (I'm 
> > assuming that the NFS file server is the system on which you're running 
> > "make check"; both systems using NFS from a third system may have other 
> > problems.)
> 
> I am using NFS from a third system on both the host and target machines.

I think that's very hard to make reliable, though setting NFS mount 
options on *both* systems to disable as much caching as possible (starting 
with acdirmax=0,acdirmin=0) may help.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com