From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-notify-tests.el hanging for nextstep builds on OS X? Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:45:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83si5hp4sq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83twpxp5zq.fsf@gnu.org> <561AB95D.9090201@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444592788 16580 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2015 19:46:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 11 21:46:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlMZT-0003cX-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 21:46:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlMZT-0004Yq-71 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlMZ9-0004Ye-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlMZ4-0000ag-Dw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:58556) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlMZ4-0000aX-5x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NW200400MSDNW00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:45:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NW2004W7MWCHY60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:45:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <561AB95D.9090201@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191264 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > 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.