bug#55706: 29.0.50; files test fails about 20% of the time

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> I have less cores in my laptop, so I have applied your code with -j8. It
> failed exactly one time. Not bad, so I'm able to reproduce it.

I was beginning to wonder whether it was just a problem on my build
machine -- I couldn't reproduce it at all on my laptop (but the laptop
is really slow compared to the build machine).

>> So there seems to be something racing with this test -- but only this
>> test.  Pretty bizarre.
>
> I will instrument both the test function and file-in-directory-p in
> order to get more information about the reason. Don't expect results
> soon, these days I'm slow in working for Emacs.

No problem.  :-)

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