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Re: expect buffer overruns (was: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice)
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Joern Rennecke |
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Re: expect buffer overruns (was: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice) |
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Fri, 06 Jun 2003 18:39:22 +0100 |
John David Anglin wrote:
> While we are on the subject of "deja" bugs, there is a buffer truncation
> problem that particularly seems to plague hppa-linux but I have also seen
> if occur on i386-linux. This affects tests that produce a large amount
> of output. The last part of the data received by dejagnu is truncated,
> usually in the middle of a line. This might be a kernel or glibc
> problem as I never see it under hpux. If anybody has any clues as to
> the fix, let me know.
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> "H. J. Lu" wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:54:21PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > > Jim Ingham wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If you have expect patches have you submitted them back to the expect
> > > > maintainers? This is now hosted at SourceForge.
> > > >
> > > > This won't help gcc & gdb, because they use a weird hacked version of
> > > > expect - the current expect won't run the testsuite correctly. But if
> > > > you have found some Linux bug, you should submit a patch to the
> > > > SourceForge patch tracker...
> > >
> > > I had already downloaded & installed the unaltered expect 5.38.0 .
> > > This has stopped expect from hanging, but the semi-random loss of output
> > > hasn't improved, if anything, it got worse.
> > > And no, I haven't got patches, I'm fishing for clues where to start.
> > >
> >
> > Try the latest patch from
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43310
>
> I get a message that the connection was refused by the server
> bugzilla.redhat.com .
>
> > Let me know if it works for you. If it does, I will file a bug report
> > for expect if it hasn't been fixed already.
>
> In Jack Howarth's message in this thread (only by subject, not by reference),
> I found the link
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=156854&archive=yes&repeatmerged=yes
> and the patch there seems to work. Running sh64-elf regression tests with
> this patch
> removes 87 spurious failures.
Good. That is the same patch. I will file a bug report against expect.
H.J.
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- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice, (continued)
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2003/06/09
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?), David Edelsohn, 2003/06/06
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?), Rob Savoye, 2003/06/06
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?), John David Anglin, 2003/06/06
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?), H. J. Lu, 2003/06/06
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?), Rob Savoye, 2003/06/06
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?), Rob Savoye, 2003/06/06
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?), Ben Elliston, 2003/06/07
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?), John David Anglin, 2003/06/06
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?), Rob Savoye, 2003/06/06
- Re: expect buffer overruns (was: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice),
Joern Rennecke <=
- Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?), Rob Savoye, 2003/06/06