On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > > > So, IMO, there are two bugs: > > > > > > 1) When the allocation of the kwset takes more memory than available, > > > 'grep' should exit via xalloc_die(), instead of waiting to be killed > > > by the OOM killer. > > > > > > 2) In the 'hash-collision-perf' unit test: The use of a perl primitive > > > for measuring the execution time of a child process, that is not > > > properly ported to GNU/Hurd. > > > > Thanks for reporting that! > > Adding a timeout should resolve this. Expect to push tomorrow: > > No, it does not resolve the problem. > > In both of my Hurd machines, with the patch, the 'hash-collision-perf' > unit test is still running after 20 minutes. > In the Hurd (32-bit) machine, a 'grep --file=in empty' command crashed from > signal 6 (SIGABRT); see attached screenshot. > Both machines are unresponsive and need to be rebooted.
Oh! Sorry. I made only the final invocation use the timeout. Must use it in the loop, too. Here's a better patch:
gr-Hurd-hang.diff
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