Re: few test failures on various system from recent changes

[Pádraig Brady]

On 16/11/16 01:44, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Attached are test logs of some failures on various system (not gnu/linux).
> This includes the recent b2sum patch, and b2sum itself does not fail.
> 
> I haven't investigated further yet, but at least the "tail-2/retry" seems 
> related to the recent truncation change,
> the 'date' on SunOS might be related to the '%q'.
> The 'race' failures on NetBSD might be due to a very slow qemu virtual 
> machine.
> I saw a recent post about Mac OS X fixes, so I'm not posting them.
> 
> SunOS 5.11 (but also fails on 5.10):
>    FAIL: tests/misc/date
> 
> OpenBSD 6.0:
>    FAIL: tests/tail-2/retry
> 
> FreeBSD-11p1:
>    FAIL: tests/misc/head-write-error
>    FAIL: tests/misc/nohup
>    FAIL: tests/misc/printenv
>    FAIL: tests/misc/printf-quote
>    FAIL: tests/tail-2/retry
>    FAIL: tests/tail-2/pipe-f
> 
> FreeBSD 10.3:
>    FAIL: tests/misc/nohup
>    FAIL: tests/misc/printenv
>    FAIL: tests/tail-2/retry
>    FAIL: tests/tail-2/pipe-f
> 
> NetBSD 7.0.1:
>    FAIL: tests/misc/numfmt
>    FAIL: tests/misc/printf-cov
>    FAIL: tests/tail-2/retry
>    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/touch/not-owner

The attached should fix the false failures on
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris.

thanks,
Pádraig

fix-false-failures.patch
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