server.el test failures (was: Re: bug#9800: Incomplete truncated file buffers from the /proc filesystem)

[Jim Porter]

On 2/13/2023 12:47 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> PS. I was surprised to see that Emacs master currently has several test 
> case failures on GNU/Linux (specifically the latest Fedora and Ubuntu 
> releases). I hope these are known and that people are working on them.
>
> 1 files did not finish:
>    lisp/server-tests.log

How did you run these tests? I don't see failures for this on EMBA, nor 
when running it manually on GNU/Linux (latest Mint) via "make -C test 
server-tests".

These tests are somewhat brittle since they spawn emacsclient processes 
to verify that the client can communicate with an Emacs server. The 
tests make some assumptions about how they'll be run, so probably one of 
those assumptions doesn't hold.

I thought we'd worked out all the issues with the tests, but apparently 
not...