Re: coreutils-8.31.90-cc4c.tar.xz on GNU/Hurd

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/03/2020 21:55, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On a GNU/Hurd from 2019, I observe one hanging test:
>
> FAIL: tests/du/8gb (after I killed the hanging process)
>
> and 6 test failures:
>
> FAIL: tests/misc/env-S
> FAIL: tests/misc/kill
> FAIL: tests/misc/nice
> FAIL: tests/split/fail
> FAIL: tests/cp/parent-perm-race
> FAIL: tests/dd/stats
>
> Find the log attached.
>
> In the test that hangs, the command
>    dd bs=1 seek=8G of=big < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
> produced a file that is 8 GiB (= 8589934592 bytes) large.
> Adding a 'count=1' argument does not help:
>    dd bs=1 seek=8G of=big count=1 < /dev/null
> or even
>    dd bs=1 seek=8G of=big count=0 < /dev/null
> hangs as well.

Hangs are evil.
That should be avoided with the attached.

cheers,
Pádraig

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