Santiago Vila wrote:
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
Sorry, but what is the race condition, and why would adding 'sleep 1' help? The
test should work regardless of whether 'diff' starts before 'head' does.
Are fifos broken on your system somehow?
Can you use 'strace -f' to see what syscalls are going wrong in 'head' and/or
'diff'?
