bug#75613: tail-c test fails on CentOS 6

2025-01-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 16/01/2025 21:16, Paul Eggert wrote: On 2025-01-16 13:11, Pádraig Brady wrote: I propose we at least adjust the test to skip failures on older kernels, as in the attached. Thanks, that looks good to me too. Pushed. Marking this as done. cheers, Pádraig

bug#75613: tail-c test fails on CentOS 6

2025-01-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 16/01/2025 20:19, Paul Eggert wrote: On 2025-01-16 11:50, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: $ src/timeout --verbose 1 src/tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom timeout: sending signal TERM to command 'src/tail' $ echo $? 124 Wikipedia[1] says that CentOS versions through

bug#75613: tail-c test fails on CentOS 6

2025-01-16 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2025-01-16 13:11, Pádraig Brady wrote: I propose we at least adjust the test to skip failures on older kernels, as in the attached. Thanks, that looks good to me too.

bug#75613: tail-c test fails on CentOS 6

2025-01-16 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2025-01-16 11:50, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: $ src/timeout --verbose 1 src/tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom timeout: sending signal TERM to command 'src/tail' $ echo $? 124 Wikipedia[1] says that CentOS versions through CentOS 8 have reached end-of-life and are n

bug#75613: tail-c test fails on CentOS 6

2025-01-16 Thread Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
On CentOS 6, there is a test failure: FAIL: tests/tail/tail-c.sh Log is attached. The command that fails is: timeout --verbose 1 tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom And indeed, I can reproduce it manually: $ timeout --verbose 1 src/tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom timeout: Unrecognized option '--verbose'