Re: one last snapshot before test release

[Jim Meyering]

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Hooboy. sort-compress failed spectacularly on OSF. From the errors
>>> (lots of "task_create() failed for pid 12044: maxuprc (=64) exceeded
>>> for uid <uid>"), it looks like it is blowing some process limit (looks
>>> like the limit is 64?).
>> Does the test actually fail, or does it succeed while something is
>> spewing out those messages?
>
> It does actually fail. In fact, from the mountains of diff output it
> looks like 'sort' *may* be completely failing to output anything, or at
> least failing to output large chunks of what it is supposed to. I can
> re-run with VERBOSE, but it's going to be a *big* log, should I bz2 it
> and post that?

Yes, please.
Also, what version of OSF?
I see failures on OSF V4.0 1229, but none involving sort.
These are the ones that fail for me:

  chown/preserve-root
  readlink/can-e
  readlink/can-f
  readlink/can-m

Failures like these (only on such an old OS) aren't worth
holding up a test release.