bug#12820: gnulib testsuite failure in latest master

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:

>>On 11/07/2012 06:06 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>
>> Let's see if I can reproduce the failure with:
>>
>>   $ i=0; while strace -o ut ./test-utimens; do echo RUN $((++i)); done
>>
>> ... Well, I still haven't reproduced it after 47 runs.
>>
> Nor after 150 runs.  I'll stop trying to reproduce it for the moment;
> I'll get back to this thread if the issue crops up again, or if someone
> has suggestions about how to (try to) reproduce it.

Thanks for reporting this.
I've seen similar failures a few times over the years, but not in the
last several months -- that are extremely hard to reproduce.
For me, they seemed more likely to appear when doing massively-parallel
"make check".