Hello. I've just uploaded diffutils 3.7 for Debian unstable (hopefully to be part of Debian 10, since it contains only small fixes).
But there is a problem: The build in the ppc64el autobuilder failed: https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=diffutils&ver=1%3A3.7-1&arch=ppc64el In tests/colors there was a race condition which I tried to fix by adding a "sleep 1", like this: mkfifo fifo printf '%1000000s-a' > a printf '%1000000s-b' > b head -c 10 < fifo > /dev/null & sleep 1 diff --color=always ---presume-output-tty a b > fifo test $? = 141 || fail=1 It is possible that the "head" command takes (sometimes) more than one second to complete on ppc64el? Are there any other places in the test where a race condition could be happening? Thanks.
