Re: coreutils-8.3: a few tests fail

[Jim Meyering]

Christophe LYON wrote:
> I have built coreutils-8.3 and ran 'make check' on a few systems and I
> have noticed some FAILs as follows. Given their old age, I am not sure
> it is worth reporting, though.
>
> * Linux RedHat 3/x86: tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse, log extract:
>   + kill -HUP 15829
> [1]+  Hangup                  tail $debug -qF $(seq $n) >out 2>&1
> + wait 15829
> ./tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse: line 59: wait: pid 15829 is not a child
> of this shell
> + st=127
> + echo tail died via unexpected signal: 127
> tail died via unexpected signal: 127
> + fail=1
>
> * Linux RedHat 3/x86: tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2, log extract:
> + kill -HUP 16044
> ./tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: line 40: kill: (16044) - No such process
> + wait 16044
> + st=124
> + echo tail died via unexpected signal: 124
> tail died via unexpected signal: 124
> + fail=1
>
> * Linux RedHat 3/x86_64: test-utimens (test-utimens.h:101: assertion failed)
>
> * Linux RedHat 4/x86: test-nanosleep (test-nanosleep.c:78: assertion failed)
> * Linux RedHat 4/x86: test-sleep (test-sleep.c:53: assertion failed)

Thanks for the report.
Can you repeat the tests with the very latest snapshot?

  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz      9.4 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz      4.0 MB

If any of those failures persist, we *might* have time to address
one or two before coreutils-8.4, which is slated to be released today.