Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes.  I think I have been here when investigating the popen blocking
> problem, but then I compiled Guile without thread support and I could
> still observe the blocking.  (I stopped at that point, lazy me, but
> debugging should have been simpler without threads...)

How recent was your checkout when you ran the test?  I ask because it
looks like there are two bugs, and I wanted to know if your tree was
recent enough to include the fix I committed for one of them.

In any case, I'll see if I can still get it to hang using
--without-threads.

Thanks
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