Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Issues with Perl-based test suite

[Tim Ruehsen]

On Sunday 28 September 2014 01:23:08 Darshit Shah wrote:
> 2. Race Conditions: The tets suite seems to have some races somewhere in it.
> Over the last year or so, I've often seen Test-proxied-https.px fail and
> then pass in the second invokation. This seemed like some race, but
> occurred infrequently enopugh to be a pain point. However, Tim's recent
> patch for using the parallel tets harness seems to be causing more tests to
> fail for me. Now I have all the Test-iri* tests also failing very randomly
> and erratically. A second/third/nth invokation of make check will generally
> see them pass successfully. Without Tim's patch, these tests always passed
> without issues. I'm loath to believe that the patch itself is the cause of
> failure. My understanding is that, it is only triggering the issue more
> often leading to a very high rate of false positives.

Well Darshit, I just saw it happen here :-)

FAIL: Test-N-no-info.px

But the content of the .log file looks good:
#############
Running test Test-N-current
Calling ../src/wget -N http://localhost:47392/somefile.txt
--2014-09-30 09:42:01--  http://localhost:47392/somefile.txt
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:47392... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 Dontcare
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.
--2014-09-30 09:42:01--  http://localhost:47392/somefile.txt
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:47392... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 Dontcare
Length: 112 [text/plain]
Saving to: 'somefile.txt'

     0K                                                       100% 11.7M=0s

2014-09-30 09:42:01 (11.7 MB/s) - 'somefile.txt' saved [112/112]

Test successful.
#############

I just want to confirm that there is a race condition. I'll look at that 
later. It has nothing to do with my ongoing patch.

Tim

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