Re: coreutils on NetBSD 7.1.1

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello Bruno,

Thanks for the testing!


On 26/06/18 12:56 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> A recent coreutils snapshot (GNU coreutils 8.29.53-5fb8eb-dirty)
> hangs during "make check", at the tests/misc/tac-2-nonseekable.sh
> test. tac-2-nonseekable.log is empty. The process that hangs has
> the command line 'tac - -'.
>
> Other than that, there are also a number of test failures, among them:
> FAIL: tests/cp/existing-perm-race
> FAIL: tests/cp/file-perm-race
> FAIL: tests/cp/parent-perm-race
> FAIL: tests/tail-2/pipe-f
> FAIL: tests/tail-2/pipe-f2
> FAIL: tests/tail-2/retry
> FAIL: tests/touch/not-owner

For reference, the above been failing in past versions as well:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-11/msg00068.html
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-11/msg00102.html

> FAIL: tests/misc/tty
> FAIL: tests/misc/date-debug > FAIL: tests/misc/date-tz> FAIL: 
> tests/tail-2/follow-stdin
These seem new (or at least I couldn't find them in the mailing list in 
regards to netbsd).

I'll try to make a web page documenting know failures, to reduce 
duplicated efforts for everyone.

regards,
 - assaf