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Re: [PATCH 0/1] Skip attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp on known-broken DejaGnu versions
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 16:21:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Skip attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp on known-broken DejaGnu versions
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On 05/25/2016 03:07 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> The buildbot is still showing attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp racy
> failures on several build slaves. Thinking some might have been
> related to yesterday's PR gdb/19828 fixes, I looked at the logs of a
> couple. What I saw looked like what you get if your DejaGnu version
> predates a fix from last year:
>
> [PATCH] DejaGnu kills the wrong process due to PID-reuse races
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dejagnu/2015-07/msg00005.html
>
> DejaGnu 1.6 was released meanwhile, which includes that fix, and some
> distros backported the fix too. But I believe some of the build
> slaves miss it.
>
> So the following patch skips the test when run with older/broken
> DejaGnus, in order to try to improve the signal/noise ratio.
I went ahead and pushed this in, in order to run it through
the buildbot's racy tests auto-regen next Sunday.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves