On 21/05/2025 20:13, Peter Dyballa via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
Am 20.Mai.2025 um 19:10 schrieb Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>: First, please build and run coreutils 9.7The tests stop in PASS: tests/cp/dir-vs-file.sh PASS: tests/cp/existing-perm-dir.sh at + mkfifo_or_skip_ fifo + test 1 = 1 + mkfifo fifo + touch fifo-copy + chgrp 502 fifo + chgrp 262 fifo-copy + chmod g+r fifo-copy + cp -p --copy-contents fifo fifo-copy + pid=10841 cp: cannot stat 'fifo-copy/fifo': Not a directory After waiting 40 min I had, at around 19:00 h: -rw-r--r-- 1 macports admin 6677 21. Mai 18:25 existing-perm-race.log -rw-r--r-- 1 macports admin 6194 21. Mai 18:25 existing-perm-dir.log -rw-r--r-- 1 macports admin 82 21. Mai 18:25 existing-perm-dir.trs Then, two hours ago, I killed 'make check'…
I've not looked at the main issue at hand, but the tests shouldn't hang. We already protect some fifo interactions with `timeout 60`, so I've pushed this change to avoid such hangs similarly in future: https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=dc4e6b670 cheers, Padraig
