Eric Blake wrote: > I'm interested in getting a beta-quality 2.64 release out the door soon. > There are still known issues (primarily coverage of parallel autotest, but > also a growing backlog of suggested improvements in my inbox) that prevent > this from being a stable release.
Can you summarize these improvements? Otherwise, parallel autotest can be deemed experimental and not prevent the release to be considered stable. > But there has been enough of a lull in > fast-and-furious development lately that I think we would benefit from the > extra exposure of having a release available for wider testing. > > I'm thinking of committing this patch to counteract the fact that Ralf > (and others) have still not had enough time to hammer out whether it is > possible to work around dash and ksh bugs when it comes to parallel > testsuites. The intent here is that you can still test these shells, by > adding TEST_PARALLEL_AUTOTEST to your environment, but that default > out-of-the-box testing will skip rather than risk hanging or dropping a > fork bomb on insufficiently tested platforms. I tested that > TESTSUITEFLAGS='-k parallel' skipped all these tests on OpenBSD's sh until > I added the extra envvar, but that TESTSUITEFLAGS='-k autotest' still ran > and passed all tests under bash without any extra effort. All good ideas in here, though. Paolo
