Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.20] testsuite: 2 7 8 13 14 16 17 22 28 29 44 45 46 48 51 52 61 63 64 65 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 failed

[H.Merijn Brand]

On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:50:29 +0300, "Sergey Poznyakoff"
<address@hidden> wrote:

> H.Merijn Brand <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> 
> > For the time being? It does no harm (IMHO) and only guards against old,
> > unsupported or non standard-conforming systems, nor does it break tar.
> 
> Perhaps I didn't express myself well enough. All you say is true. What I
> meant is that the patch avoids fseek buggy behavior only when
> seek_offset==0, but I am not sure that this bug does not exist when
> seek_offset > 0, as well.

I doubt that, as this patch fixed all testcases. Of course I did not
dig into all the ways genfile was called, but for now I'd leave the
subject for what it is.

> This might require some more experimenting on
> your platform. On the other hand, since this platform is obsolete, I
> doubt if it's worth the effort.

It is not worth the effort.

> > > I'll see what can be done.
> > 
> > Start with documenting how to run a single test in
> > README/INSTALL/whateverfileyouthinkbest
> 
> I'll do. Technically speaking, the cause of that particular problem
> (running two testcases with -k pipe) is that testsuite looks for
> keywords in both keyword section of the testcase and in its header
> string.   
> 
> > I really looked and couldn't find it
> 
> Have you tried ./testsuite --help ? :)

Of course not, that would be too obvious! :)

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