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Re: ai_flags in calls to getaddrinfo, broader call for reproducibility c


From: Basil L. Contovounesios
Subject: Re: ai_flags in calls to getaddrinfo, broader call for reproducibility check
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:32:24 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I'm asking because I'm still bothered by failures in those two tests,
>> and would like to avoid that.  I think it's bad if a test fails when
>> there's nothing wrong with Emacs; we should try to skip such tests
>> when we know their results cannot be trusted.
>
> The results can be trusted. However, the assumption of the tests is
> that DNS lookups on AAAA records will work, and return results for
> google.com, which is not the case for you. If you prefer we can change
> the tests to check for "no error" rather than 'returns a result' (is
> there an ERT 'should-not-error' clause)?

Yes, progn (implicit or otherwise) ;).
[ See the penultimate paragraph in (info "(ert) The should Macro"). ]

This is definitely a long shot, but any chance bug#45798 relates to
this?

Thanks,

-- 
Basil



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