Re: coreutils-8.31.90-cc4c.tar.xz on Solaris 11 OpenIndiana (2)

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/03/2020 20:59, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On Solaris 11 OpenIndiana, I also see a test failure:
>
>
> FAIL: tests/misc/timeout-parameters
> ===================================
>
> timeout: invalid time interval 'invalid'
> Try 'timeout --help' for more information.
> timeout: invalid time interval 'invalid'
> Try 'timeout --help' for more information.
> timeout: invalid time interval '42D'
> Try 'timeout --help' for more information.
> timeout: invalid time interval '-1.189731495357231765e+4932'
> Try 'timeout --help' for more information.
> timeout: 'invalid': invalid signal
> Try 'timeout --help' for more information.
> timeout: failed to run command '.': Permission denied
> timeout: failed to run command 'no_such': No such file or directory
> FAIL tests/misc/timeout-parameters.sh (exit status: 1)
>
>
> In order to understand which of the particular tests fails, I added
> 'echo FAILnn' statements, and found that
>
>    - sometimes the 5th test, the command
>        timeout 9223372036854775808d sleep 0
>      fails,
>
>    - sometimes the 7th test, the command
>        timeout 1.189731495357231765e+4932 sleep 0
>      fails,
>
>    - sometimes both of these tests fail.

That looks like an OpenIndiana 11 bug,
where a timer set with max value returns immediately.
A similar thing was seen with 32 bit Linux/HPPA.

I presume the attached avoids the kernel bug.

cheers,
Pádraig

indiana-timer-fire.patch
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