Re: AIX results

[Pádraig Brady]

On 22/12/17 05:30, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> P.S.
> To investigate further, the builds are on the GCC compiler farm 
> (gcc119.fsffrance.org) in
>    /home/agn/coreutils-8.28.61-70c84-32bit/
>    /home/agn/coreutils-8.28.61-70c84-64bit/

I've not had access to the compile farm in years,
even though I've requested a few times to have
my ssh keys reinstated :(

CCing Michael Felt to the thread, for AIX visibility.

Does this avoid one of the failures?

diff --git a/tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh b/tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh
index 759881c..3dd85ec 100755
--- a/tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh
+++ b/tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ compare exp out || fail=1
 timeout 10 tail -f $mode $fastpoll out | sleep .1 || fail=1

 # This would wait indefinitely before v8.28 (until first write)
-returns_ 1 timeout 10 tail -f $mode $fastpoll /dev/null >&- || fail=1
+(returns_ 1 timeout 10 tail -f $mode $fastpoll /dev/null >&-) || fail=1
 done

 Exit $fail

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