Re: false-positive failure of the root-removal test

[Pádraig Brady]

On 14/10/15 19:40, Jim Meyering wrote:
> FYI, I hit another failure,
> but now in another race-susceptible test:
> 
> + diff -u exp out
> --- exp 2015-10-14 11:26:05.424685178 -0700
> +++ out 2015-10-14 11:26:05.424685178 -0700
> @@ -1 +0,0 @@
> -line
> + fail=1
> + Exit 1
> + set +e
> + exit 1
> + exit 1
> + remove_tmp_
> + __st=1
> + cleanup_
> + :
> + cd /data/users/meyering/w/co/cu
> + chmod -R u+rwx /data/users/meyering/w/co/cu/gt-follow-stdin.sh.y0sA
> + rm -rf /data/users/meyering/w/co/cu/gt-follow-stdin.sh.y0sA
> + exit 1
> FAIL tests/tail-2/follow-stdin.sh (exit status: 1)
> 
> So I'll just remember to use reduced parallelism for this task.

That was an easier fix. Attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

coreutils-tail-test-race.patch
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