Re: failures with parallel tests

[Karl Berry]

Is there some crazy way to avoid pty's completely?  I suspect they are
inherently random trouble.  I mean, tests presumably can't use a "real"
terminal, pseudo or otherwise, it all has to be batch anyway.
(Sorry for not actually looking at what you are doing with the ptys,
likely I'm totally offbase.)

Another possibility: look at coreutils and/or gnulib test suites.  maybe
they do checks with ptys using methods that can be adapted.

k