Jim Meyering writes: > > P=C3=A1draig Brady wrote: > > Alan Curry wrote: > >> SIGTERM to gdb, but gdb has SIGTERM blocked so nothing happens. > > > > thanks for investigating. > > Perhaps we need to use `timeout -sKILL ...` > > Sounds good to me.
I added that and re-ran make check. It worked but gdb's child process (tail -f file) is still lingering afterward until I kill it manually. Why has nobody else noticed this? Are other versions of gdb less stubborn? Maybe I did something to make it stubborn, but I don't know what that could be. In case you're keeping score: Debian 5.0r3, ppc32 All 366 tests passed (45 tests were not run) make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/coreutils-8.1/tests' All 177 tests passed (14 tests were not run) make[6]: Leaving directory `/tmp/coreutils-8.1/gnulib-tests' -- Alan Curry
