Re: avoid spurious failures from MacOS readdir bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 12/2/2008 3:11 PM:
>> Also, does this attempt to shave processes in the autoconf testsuite look 
>> valid?  [Lest you get a mistaken idea about my abilities, my sed-foo isn't 
>> that 
>> strong: I had to copy liberally from the 'info sed' manual.]
> 
> Is it really that important to shave a process here?  Wow.  Personally
> I'd stick with "sort -u".

$ grep AC_STATE_SAVE\( tests/testsuite | wc -l
591

Of which, many instances are inside generated configure.ac files where the
testsuite then runs the configure script multiple times.  So shaving a
process here shaves more than 1000 forks off the total testsuite time,
with a noticeable impact on cygwin.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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