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Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.24: OpenBSD testsuite failures


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.24: OpenBSD testsuite failures
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:42:54 -0600
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[adding bug-autoconf]

On 10/27/2010 01:01 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 10/27/10 07:31, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> This produces "too many files open in shell" right away:
>>
>> ulimit -n 10; : <&-
> 
> Ah, OK.  Does the following output "buggy shell", then?
> 
> if (ulimit -n 10; : <&-) 2>/dev/null
> then echo OK
> else echo Houston we have a problem
> fi

I just tested on OpenBSD 4.7, FreeBSD 8.1, and MirBSD 10; that reports
failure for all three of those distros.  However, it also reports
failure for dash 0.5.5.1 and latest dash.git, as well as pdksh.  So the
bug is pretty much inherited by all ash derivatives.

It passes on bash, zsh, Solaris /bin/sh, and ksh93.

> I don't see how this behavior can be defended as "not a bug",
> but we don't have to resolve that issue right now; all we have
> to do is to fix the tests so that they don't incorrectly report
> a bug in tar when this (ahem) "situation" arises with the shell.

Additionally, Autoconf should probably document this bug.

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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