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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-notify-tests.el hanging for nextstep builds on OS X?
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:45:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83si5hp4sq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <561AB95D.9090201@cs.ucla.edu>

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:32:45 -0700
> 
> On my Fedora x86-64 platform, file-notify tests sometimes work and sometimes 
> don't.  It seems pretty random.  I ignore the failures, just as I ignore the 
> failures in auto-revert etc.

I think you should report the details of the failures.  It's true that
due to event-driven nature of the underlying mechanisms these tests
are somewhat fragile, but it could be a real problem.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-11 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-11 19:13 file-notify-tests.el hanging for nextstep builds on OS X? John Wiegley
2015-10-11 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-11 19:32   ` Paul Eggert
2015-10-11 19:45     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-10-12 11:43 ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-17  9:59   ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-18  0:14     ` John Wiegley

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