From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:34:59 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: tests: avoid unusual (~1-in-20) failure of a new test
X-Git-Tag: v7.3~22
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b726914a4c1ea8f943359d9ad19a09d3ee606694;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tests: avoid unusual (~1-in-20) failure of a new test

* tests/misc/sort: Remove one of the generated tests.
363 remain in this file alone.
---

diff --git a/tests/misc/sort b/tests/misc/sort
index a27f47ad56..c5a2d74920 100755
--- a/tests/misc/sort
+++ b/tests/misc/sort
@@ -369,6 +369,14 @@ foreach my $t (@Tests)
 
 @Tests = triple_test \@Tests;
 
+# Remember that triple_test creates from each test with exactly one "IN"
+# file two more tests (.p and .r suffix on name) corresponding to reading
+# input from a file and from a pipe.  The pipe-reading test would fail
+# due to a race condition about 1 in 20 times.
+# Remove the IN_PIPE version of the "output-is-input" test above.
+# The others aren't susceptible because they have three inputs each.
+@Tests = grep {$_->[0] ne 'output-is-input.p'} @Tests;
+
 my $save_temps = $ENV{DEBUG};
 my $verbose = $ENV{VERBOSE};