bug#25605: bug#25606: patches installed for 25605, 25606

[Philipp Stephani]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> schrieb am Di., 7. Feb. 2017 um 17:32 Uhr:

On 02/07/2017 04:47 AM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> If they fail, shouldn't the test runner that runs these tests time out
> after some time and mark them as failures?

Not if the test runner is written in elisp. The loops are deep in the C
code and are immune to elisp timeouts. (I don't know how the test runner
works.)

How about running the Emacs binary wrapped in /usr/bin/timeout?