Bug#834912: libfile-tee-perl: FTBFS too much often (Failed 1/2 test programs)

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 20:25:24 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 06:49:21PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 17:18:10 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > ok 24 - missing end of line - missing end of line...
> > > ok 25 - missing end of line - missing end of line... c
> > > ok 26
> > > not ok 27
> > > Failed 24/50 subtests 
> > 
> > FWIW, the package builds fine for me (amd64 sid cowbuilder).

Ok, now I can sometimes reproduce the failure in test 27 when running
the tests in a loop under heavy load.
 
> Looks like https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=101278 ;
> quoting Slaven:
> 
>   So it seems that the completion of the fork() call is quite slow in
>   this case. Setting $SIG{INT} to IGNORE did not happen yet in the child,
>   so it was unexpectedly killed, and the next write() call caused a
>   SIGPIPE in the parent

Sounds good :)
I'm still not sure where to try and start looking for a fix ...


Cheers,
gregor

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