Re: [PATCH] md5: accepts a new --threads option

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
...
>> Odd... that doesn't fail on any of the systems where I tried it:
>> rawhide, fedora 11, debian unstable.
>
> Yep I noticed it triggered on my linux-2.6.22 glibc-2.6-1 box
> but not on my F11 laptop. I've setup the test in the attached
> to output more than 16KiB per process which triggers on F11 at least.
...
> +(mkdir tmp && cd tmp && seq 500 | xargs touch)
> +
> +# This will output at least 16KiB per process
> +# which is enough to trigger on Fedora 11 at least
> +(find tmp tmp -type f | xargs -n500 -P2 md5sum) |
> +sed -n '/[0-9a-f]\{32\}  /!p' |
> +grep . > /dev/null && fail=1

Thanks.  That's better.
However, it too sometimes fails to fail:
[here, the grep matched nothing 2 of 200 times]

$ for i in $(seq 200); do (find tmp tmp -type f | xargs -n500 -P2 md5sum) \
  | sed -n '/[0-9a-f]\{32\}  /!p'|grep -q . && t=x || t=.; printf $t; done
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Adding one more "tmp" made the above spot a failure for 1500
iterations in a row.