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Re: [perl #89718] op/sigdispatch.t fails alarm test 14 and gets killed

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Leon Timmermans
Date:
April 12, 2012 08:49
Subject:
Re: [perl #89718] op/sigdispatch.t fails alarm test 14 and gets killed
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
> Is there any particular reason why this ticket is marked as a 5.16
> blocker? IIUC, its just a test that hangs on a very old linux kernel
> version, with some mention that maybe we need to skip the test if we can
> determine whether the OS doesn't have a fully working sigsuspend, or that
> maybe we should skip the problematic test on stable releases like we did
> for eintr.t. If we're blocking on that latter, then I'm happy to make test
> test skip.

That sounds like a workable solution to me, it's not like we can really fix it.

Leon

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