Re: [PATCH] tests: don't assume getdtablesize () <= 10000000

2013-04-29 Thread Paul Eggert
On 04/29/13 15:51, Jim Meyering wrote: > Does this mean that you found a system on which it is larger, > and that this is addressing some test failures? It's possible, though not likely. It would explain the symptoms of one of the failed tests that Nelson H.F. Beebe reported: for diffutils: FAIL

Re: sigaction test failure on FreeBSD 9.1 when pthread is used

2013-04-29 Thread Paul Eggert
On 04/29/13 12:09, Ed Maste wrote: > If my understanding is correct your replacement test case should still > pass even with the following change: > > - sa.sa_flags = SA_RESETHAND | SA_NODEFER; > + sa.sa_flags = SA_RESETHAND | SA_NODEFER | SA_SIGINFO; Not exactly, since in that case one also ne

Re: [PATCH] tests: don't assume getdtablesize () <= 10000000

2013-04-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: > +2013-04-29 Paul Eggert > + > + tests: don't assume getdtablesize () <= 1000 > + * modules/cloexec-tests: > + * modules/dup2-tests: > + * modules/dup3-tests: > + * modules/nonblocking-tests: > + * modules/posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose-tests: >

[PATCH] tests: don't assume getdtablesize () <= 10000000

2013-04-29 Thread Paul Eggert
--- ChangeLog | 23 +++ modules/cloexec-tests | 1 + modules/dup2-tests | 1 + modules/dup3-tests | 1 + modules/nonblocking-tests

Re: sigaction test failure on FreeBSD 9.1 when pthread is used

2013-04-29 Thread Ed Maste
On 25 April 2013 16:23, Paul Eggert wrote: > > I guess my test case wasn't a correct simplification of > the gnulib test case. Could you please try the following > test case instead? Thanks. If my understanding is correct your replacement test case should still pass even with the following chan

Re: [PATCH] qacl: new module, broken out from the acl module

2013-04-29 Thread Paul Eggert
On 04/29/13 07:27, Eric Blake wrote: > Since you are breaking the dependency on error, is there anything that > remains that requires the module to be GPL, or are we at the point where > we can consider LGPL for this module? We can consider it, I suppose. It's about 2,600 lines of code, but it is

Re: [PATCH] qacl: new module, broken out from the acl module

2013-04-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/27/2013 06:44 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > This is for GNU Emacs, which wants the acl functions but does > not want 'error' invoked when they fail. Since you are breaking the dependency on error, is there anything that remains that requires the module to be GPL, or are we at the point where we c