FAIL: string/tst-strcoll-overflow

[Florian Weimer]

On 01/16/2017 09:24 AM, Stefan Liebler wrote:
> On 01/13/2017 11:14 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On x86-64 with 32GB RAM under kernel 4.9.3, I got
>>
>> string/tst-strcoll-overflow
>> 0
>> Expected signal 'Alarm clock' from child, got none
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>
> As information:
> This test fails on s390 and a machine from Florian Weimer, too.
> See "Re: [PATCH] support: Introduce new subdirectory for test
> infrastructure"
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00391.html and follow-Ups.

I came up with the attached patch to fix this test.

We could use file-based alias mappings to greatly reduce the amount of 
memory required for this test, but this should probably wait until after 
the release.

Thanks,
Florian
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