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Re: Setting high test timeouts makes some tests take longer.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 15:35:34 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Setting high test timeouts makes some tests take longer.
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IMHO we should not have tests that rely on the implicit skeleton behavior
to be correct tests. IIRC these are tests that hang forever when run with
--direct. If the test's correctness depends on getting a SIGALRM, then
I think the test itself should call alarm.