From cd65eb97987dc75cd3a7cf88a75544cf2854d870 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:52:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: work around F17-valgrind sort-stale-thread-mem failure * tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem: Skip upon known failure. --- tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem b/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem index 55fd139..78d1699 100755 --- a/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem +++ b/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem @@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ grep '^#define HAVE_PTHREAD_T 1' "$CONFIG_HEADER" > /dev/null || seq -f %-98f 10000 | shuf > in || framework_failure_ +# On Fedora-17-beta (valgrind-3.7.0-2.fc17.x86_64), this evokes two +# "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" errors, +# each originating from _dl_start. +# FIXME: change this to a framework_failure_ after release. +valgrind --quiet --error-exitcode=3 sort --version > /dev/null || + skip_ 'valgrind fails for trivial sort invocation' + # With the bug, 'sort' would fail under valgrind about half the time, # on some circa-2010 multicore Linux platforms. Run the test 100 times # so that the probability of missing the bug should be about 1 in -- 2.7.4