Re: autotest: problem testing daemons, with possible fix

[Luke Mewburn]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:47:08AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
  | On 11/23/2010 08:58 PM, Luke Mewburn wrote:
  | > Is there any reason that AT_CHECK doesn't close this fd before
  | > executing the application?
  | 
  | Thanks for reporting the problem.
  | 
  | I don't know of any reason AT_CHECK wouldn't do that, but I'm
  | not intimately familiar with the code.  Perhaps Paolo (who contributed
  | this code back in 2003) can comment.
  | 
  | > I've attached a patch that performs this, against autoconf-2.68.
  | 
  | That patch doesn't smell right to me.  The output is being redirected
  | for a reason, and simply undoing the redirection feels odd.  I
  | suspect that any fix should be done inside AT_CHECK instead.  Could
  | you try the following instead, and see whether it works for you?  I'm
  | not sure it's right (hadn't had time to analyze this code) but I think
  | it's an improvement.

Your patch also solves the problem.

thanks,
Luke.

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