Re: info/t/dir-dangling-entry.sh hang on netbsd

[Gavin Smith]

On 1 June 2015 at 00:52, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Gavin - on a netbsd 5.1 system I happen to have access to, the
> dir-dangling-entry test hangs (in uninterruptible disk wait; parent
> process had to be killed to recover).  Running with sh -vx shows it
> hanging in Init-inter.inc:
> ..
> # Wedge open pipe
> sleep 10 3>$PTY_TYPE &
> + sleep 10
> [no more output]

It's probably freezing on trying to open the FIFO. I don't have
anything to suggest at the moment.

> I don't know if it is related to the problem (I kind of doubt it), but
> on this system, mknod is locally compiled from coreutils, while mkfifo
> is available as part of core BSD.  I have the impression that mkfifo is
> part of POSIX and the mknod utility is not (and hence BSD doesn't
> provide it).  E.g., this list (although I don't entirely believe it):
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html
>
> So, perhaps it would be better to use mkfifo if it is available, and only
> if not, fall back to mknod p (aren't they basically equivalent?).  Or,
> simpler, just give up if no mkfifo.  Any system without mkfifo is likely
> to be so old so as to have other problems with something as fragile as
> pseudottys and named pipes and interactive I/O being done in batch.

Does the test work with mkfifo?

> I see that Assaf provides the various bsd systems in his
> http://pretest.nongnu.org/ project, so maybe that would be a convenient
> way for you to try to reproduce, when you have a chance?  (I could also
> ask for access to you to the system I was trying on; that's likely to be
> fine, but also likely to take a few days.)

I'd really have to play around on the system to try to figure out
what's going on. I don't have time in the next few days to try to set
up a virtual machine.