On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Petr Machata wrote:
> The instructions that you gave indeed do reproduce the problem.
Thanks for confirming.
> P.S. I seriously wonder whether it's worth it to hunt this esoteric bug.
> (Especially given that it was confirmed that the code is written
> correctly.) As I sai
11.04.2010 20:40, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
>> The code in bison-2.4.2/src/output.c looks fine.
>
> Thanks for confirming.
>
>> Can you help reproducing or debugging it, with just 2 executables: bison
>> and m4? (I.e. give a "how to reproduce" that does no
10.04.2010 21:49, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> Before switching to create_pipe_bidi, I had observed a race condition.
> That is, I could run a test for this problem on the same system many times
> in a row, and it would fail only some of the time. This race condition
> might still be there.
Well, d
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Bruno Haible wrote:
> The code in bison-2.4.2/src/output.c looks fine.
Thanks for confirming.
> Can you help reproducing or debugging it, with just 2 executables: bison
> and m4? (I.e. give a "how to reproduce" that does not involve bison's
> testsuite? I'm not inclined to l
Hi Joel,
> In the create_pipe_bidi invocation above, I set the slave_process argument
> to true. create_pipe_bidi passes that argument to create_pipe, which then
> invokes register_slave_subprocess, which uses atexit to register a
> function that invokes kill.
>
> Moreover the documentation i
Hi Bruno,
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > pid = create_pipe_bidi ("m4", m4, (char **)(void*)argv, false, true,
> > true, filter_fd);
> > I thought that create_pipe_bidi is supposed to make sure
> > that the m4 subprocess is killed when Bison invokes exi
Hi Joel,
Joel E. Denny wrote:
> > input.y: fatal error: too many arguments for @output directive in skeleton
> > +/usr/bin/m4:./skel.c:175: ERROR: copying inserted file: Broken pipe
> > +/usr/bin/m4: write error
>
> Thanks for the report. One of the goals of Bison 2.4.2 was to avoid m4's
> rep
I'm adding bug-gnulib in case they have already seen this problem with
create_pipe_bidi.
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Petr Machata wrote:
> I was rebasing the bison package to latest stable (2.4.2) in Fedora
> distribution, and found out that the test case 67 fails. I'm attaching
> testfile.log.
Here's
