On 11/08/2012 08:44 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Ouch, I read your strace output incorrectly: it was napping > for 20 ms, not 2 s. Still, there should be no need to nap > for that long; 1 ms should suffice on your platform. > > I installed the following patch to cause the test > to take shorter naps. This might affect your original > problem, and might not (hey! it's a timing problem) > but at least it should make the test run faster. > I'll re-run the affected test case as soon as coreutils updates its version of gnulib then, and see what happens.
Thanks, Stefano