Re: MacOS problem with "checking whether strcasestr works in linear time"

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 6/9/2008 7:03 PM:
|> The corresponding tests/test-strstr.c and friends can continue to
|> use alarm() in an environment with SIGALRM ignored, rather than
|> also doing the signal reset, because a) we should already be using
|> the linear gnulib replacement which should be fast enough to never
|> trip the alarm, and b) if we aren't, the user will hopefully notice
|> that 'make check' is taking forever and file a bug report.
|
| I disagree here. When a user does "make check" in gettext, I don't
| want to clog his machine for longer than necessary. Also, he is more
| likely to report a FAILed test rather than a 3-hours test, because he
| doesn't know a priori which tests are supposed to take a while (e.g.
| test-getaddrinfo) and which are not.
|
| May I add the 'signal (SIGALRM, SIG_DFL);' also in the 3 tests?

I don't think it's necessary given argument a, but I am also not opposed
to such a change.  Go ahead and make the change if you feel better about
it that way.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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