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Re: autotest: problem testing daemons, with possible fix


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: autotest: problem testing daemons, with possible fix
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:47:08 -0800
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[Following up on
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2010-11/msg00036.html>,
and adding bug-autoconf]

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.

There's a similar issue with high FDs when 'configure' invokes
compilers and whatnot, but that seems like a less-pressing issue;
how many compilers are going to mess up simply because fd 5 is
open?

diff --git a/lib/autotest/general.m4 b/lib/autotest/general.m4
index 78f1cc6..fc8d866 100644
--- a/lib/autotest/general.m4
+++ b/lib/autotest/general.m4
@@ -2190,7 +2190,7 @@ m4_define([_AT_CHECK],
 AS_ECHO(["$at_srcdir/AT_LINE: AS_ESCAPE([[$1]])"])
 _AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE([$1]) _AT_LINE_ESCAPED
 ( $at_check_trace; [$1]
-) >>"$at_stdout" 2>>"$at_stderr"
+) >>"$at_stdout" 2>>"$at_stderr" AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD>&-
 at_status=$? at_failed=false
 $at_check_filter
 m4_ifdef([AT_DIFF_STDERR($4)], [m4_indir([AT_DIFF_STDERR($4)])],




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