Re: Bug#569020: coreutils: failure of install-C test on GNU/kFreeBSD

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/02/10 19:56, Michael Stone wrote:
> Figures that I get completely different results with kfreebsd 8 kernel.
> (Presumably the install test isn't an issue because my user doesn't have
> multiple groups--will still look at that.)
>
> tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2 fails, which I'm not even sure is
> relevant. (No inotify; maybe have the test check the config status?
> Fails because tail dies at some point when the file disappears,
> presumably a race condition.)

That test should pass irrespective of inotify availability.
I've spun it for 20 mins now on linux with inotify disabled without issue:

while true; do
  (cd tests && make check TESTS=tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2 VERBOSE=yes) || break
done

Can you reproduce and perhaps get a backtrace?

cheers,
Pádraig.