Re: TestLeakingFileDescriptor

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at redhat dot com>]

It is very hard to comment on a technical when the technical background 
is limited.  Can you please provide an example of the problem, perhaps 
reduced to an automated test-case?  As they say, they pass for me.

Is your testbed the motivation behind this request?  We can certainly 
explore options such as moving some of the tests to the stress 
test-suite; however the quid-pro-quo is that we have also analyzed 
failing cases identified by the stress test and added deterministic 
fixes for them.

Andrew

Kris Van Hees wrote:
> I'd like to propose that the TestLeakingFileDescriptor test cases be marked
> as stress tests rather than regular tests, to avoid them being executed at
> every testsuite invocation.  Reason for this proposal is two-fold: first of
> all, these tests are implicitly intermittent due to the fact that they depend
> on a behaviour that is not deterministic (the garbage collector does not
> actually do I/O resource mangement), and secondly, when they do fail they tend
> to cause a bunch of side effects (causing later tests to fail, causing daemon
> instances of TestRunner to never get torn down, ...).
>
> 	Cheers,
> 	Kris
>