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Re: rhbz460153 - perror should not errcnt across test files
From: |
Martin Cermak |
Subject: |
Re: rhbz460153 - perror should not errcnt across test files |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:04:43 +0100 |
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NeoMutt/20180716 |
On Thu 2022-01-20 21:11 , Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Martin Cermak wrote:
> > Jacob, folks,
> >
> > I think the current Dejagnu codebase (4e4eb1534b4) contains a bug
> > that was initially reported here:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460153
>
> I am unable to find that commit in my repository. Are you sure that it is
> in Savannah?
>
> > The bug contains both reproducer and a short patch. Please,
> > consider upstreaming it.
>
> Please resubmit the report to <bug-dejagnu@gnu.org> to create an entry in
> the GNU bug tracker. (This bug is so old that it predates the installation
> of the current bug tracker.)
>
> On one hand, test scripts are not supposed to leave an error "hanging" like
> that; on the other, far more importantly, future native parallel testing
> support will require isolating test scripts from each other, so this is
> indeed a bug to fix. As the behavior changed only affects testsuites that
> were not following "the rules" and will support future efforts for bigger
> features, this can land on 1.6.4 once it has a GNU bug number for the
> records.
Reported to <bug-dejagnu@gnu.org>.
Thank you,
Martin