Re: coreutils-8.12.193-d8dc8 on MacOS X

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible wrote:

> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Here's another pre-release snapshot.
>
> On MacOS X 10.5.8 (64-bit build), 1 test failed:
>
>
> FAIL: misc/tty-eof (exit: 1)
> ============================
>
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> tty-eof: sum didn't exit after ^D from standard input
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
> F: 1: ^D
>
> The failure is reproducible, but not always: in 14 runs of
> "make check TESTS=misc/tty-eof", I got 5 FAIL and 9 PASS.
>
> It may be related to the issue I reported in
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-07/msg00063.html>.

Thanks for the report.
I'm wondering if this test is inherently racy, perhaps depending
on which version of Perl itself or perl's Expect code you're using.
It's not worth holding up the release just for this.