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Re: STC for libapr1 failure


On 2/15/2012 1:20 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 15 13:15, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> On 2/15/2012 12:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Feb 15 11:39, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>>> On 2/15/2012 7:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> Did I mention that I hate synchronization problems?  Anyway, I think I
>>>>> found the problem.  I applied a patch which fixes the problem for me
>>>>> and, surprise!, the flock test still runs fine, too.  I've just uploaded
>>>>> a new snapshot.  Please give it a try.
>>>>
>>>> All the procmutex tests pass now! Awesome!
>>>>
>>>> But... now one of the flock tests is failing. It takes a while to
>>>> extract a STC from the APR test suite because everything is written in
>>>> APR-ese and I have to convert every APR call into the base C library
>>>> calls. I'll work on that over the next day or three.
>>>>
>>>> The gist of the test that's failing is this:
>>>>
>>>>  * Create a file.
>>>>  * Get an exclusive flock on it.
>>>>  * Spawn a child process that attempts to get an exclusive, non-blocking
>>>>    lock on the file.
>>>>
>>>> The test is expecting that the child will not be able to get the lock,
>>>> but the child is able to.
>>>
>>> Did I really mention that I hate synchronization problems?
>>
>> Yeah, you mentioned it. :-)
>>
>>> Does it fork/exec or does it only exec? 
>>
>> Looks like fork/exec. execv to be precise.
>>
>>> I guess I really need the testcase.
>>
>> I'll try to work on that tonight.
> 
> Thanks.  Btw., does that testcase fail in 1.7.9 as well?

I'm pretty sure it did. I think all the tests passed the last time I
released this package (2011-09-10), but I might have been testing
against a snapshot. It's hard for me to tell now. If I just install
1.7.9 on my system, things like /bin/ls stop working. The compiled tests
don't run, either.

FYI, the test was passing with 1.7.10 and the 20120214 snapshot. It
didn't start failing until your last snapshot (20120215).

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