Re: Testresults for sparc-sun-solaris2.6

[Bruno Haible]

Tom G. Christensen wrote:
> + rm -f t-select-in.tmp 
> + ./test-select-fd r 0 t-select-in.tmp 
> + cat t-select-in.tmp 
> + test 0 = 1 
> + exit 1 

Thanks. So apparently Solaris 2.6 has a problem with select() of /dev/null.
I verified that the test passes on Solaris 7.

It's probably not worth working around it. I'm only adding a mention of it
to the documentation.


2008-12-20  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * doc/posix-functions/select.texi: Mention Solaris 2.6 bug with
        /dev/null.
        * tests/test-select-in.sh: Likewise.

*** doc/posix-functions/select.texi.orig        2008-12-20 20:42:10.000000000 
+0100
--- doc/posix-functions/select.texi     2008-12-20 20:40:59.000000000 +0100
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*** 28,33 ****
--- 28,37 ----
  On BeOS, @code{select} can only be called on descriptors created by the
  @code{socket} function, not on regular file descriptors.
  @item
+ On Solaris 2.6 and older, @code{select} applied to a file descriptor opened
+ for reading and associated with @code{/dev/null} hangs, waiting for input,
+ when instead it should return immediately.
+ @item
  On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select}
  may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}.
  @end itemize
*** tests/test-select-in.sh.orig        2008-12-20 20:42:10.000000000 +0100
--- tests/test-select-in.sh     2008-12-20 20:38:34.000000000 +0100
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*** 1,6 ****
--- 1,9 ----
  #!/bin/sh
  # Test select() on file descriptors opened for reading.
  
+ # This test is known to fail on Solaris 2.6 and older, due to its handling
+ # of /dev/null.
+ 
  tmpfiles=""
  trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15
  
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*** 23,28 ****
--- 26,32 ----
  test `cat t-select-in.tmp` = "1" || exit 1
  
  # Special files.
+ # This part of the test is known to fail on Solaris 2.6 and older.
  
  rm -f t-select-in.tmp
  ./test-select-fd${EXEEXT} r 0 t-select-in.tmp < /dev/null