Re: failures with parallel tests

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.)
>

I've added another attempt at stopping this problem. I'll try writing
a README with some brief notes on what the tests are doing.

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

Maybe.

Thanks.