Control: reassign -1 faketime
Hi. Thanks very much for your investigation.
Olly Betts writes ("Re: Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on
32-bit"):
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 07:29:54PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 40s expected: «Query((Y2000 ... Y2014 OR M201501 ...
> > 40s received: «Query((Y2000 ... Y2024 OR D20250101 ...
>
> Based on the output, it looks to me like faketime isn't affecting
> the return value of time(NULL), and testing on amdahhl in an armel
> chroot this indeed seems to be the case:
>
> (sid_armel-dchroot)olly@amdahl:~$ cat now.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <time.h>
> int main() { printf("%ld\n", (long)time(NULL)); return 0; }
> (sid_armel-dchroot)olly@amdahl:~$ gcc `dpkg-buildflags --get CPPFLAGS` now.c
> (sid_armel-dchroot)olly@amdahl:~$ ./a.out
> 1736980314
> (sid_armel-dchroot)olly@amdahl:~$ faketime '1971-01-01' ./a.out
> 1736980326
Gosh.
> I think faketime() with broken support for faking time() shouldn't be
> allowed to migrate to testing though, at which point a more complex
> check here doesn't seem to be necessary.
Yes. I will see if I can fix it.
Ian.
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