Re: testsuite/*/*/*/*.exp run twice (Was: Is gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp run twice in the test suite?)

[Rob Savoye]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:25:03PM -0400, 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

  I can fire up my hppa-linux box, but I recall this is a problem with
expect and ptys. This is usually a particularly difficult thing to debug.
It would also subtly change based in the underlying kernel or C library
as well.

        - rob -