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Re: test-getaddrinfo failures in Fedora Rawhide


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: test-getaddrinfo failures in Fedora Rawhide
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 00:17:57 +0200
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Il 24/04/2013 14:18, Pádraig Brady ha scritto:
> On 04/23/2013 11:16 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:54:03AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> I'm still thinking the gnulib patch should be applied though,
>>
>> Since the regression in glibc was detected by this gnulib test,
>> I'm not sure ignoring all EAI_SYSTEM errors would be a good idea.
> 
> That's a happy accident.

It's not, isn't it what blackbox testing is for?

> gnulib tests should not be worrying about glibc internals IMHO

In fact it didn't worry about glibc internals when testing.

>> Lets skip the test in case of EAI_SYSTEM && (EMFILE || ENFILE) then.
> 
> There are many other things that could trigger here.

Agree, EMFILE || ENFILE for example could happen on almost any other
test.  At some point you have to assume sanity.

I think gnulib is fine as is. :)

Paolo




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