Pádraig Brady wrote:

> Hi Bruno,
>
> Thanks again for all this testing.
> I'm travelling at the moment so will
> only be fleetingly responsive.
>
> On 10/08/2011 02:23 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> On Linux/HPPA (32-bit kernel) 2 tests fail:
>>
>> FAIL: misc/timeout-parameters
>
>>From your analysis, this seems like an overflow within the kernel,
> as we check all overflows as far as I can see.
>
>> FAIL: tail-2/follow-name
>
> This should work around the issue.
>
> commit 2b82ee76df6c4c36d854218d3407d9fa9170ef0a
> Author: Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com>
> Date:   Sun Oct 9 11:25:34 2011 +0100
>
>     tests: avoid a false failure on systems without inotify
>
>     * tests/tail-2/follow-name: Exclude the inotify warning
>     from the comparison.
>     Reported by Bruno Haible.
>
> diff --git a/tests/tail-2/follow-name b/tests/tail-2/follow-name
> index ef9434a..e34b779 100755
> --- a/tests/tail-2/follow-name
> +++ b/tests/tail-2/follow-name
> @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ EOF
>  timeout 10 tail --follow=name no-such > out 2> err
>  test $? = 1 || fail=1
>
> +# Remove an inconsequential inotify warning so
> +# we can compare against the above error
> +sed '/inotify cannot be used/d' err > k && mv k err

Looks reasonable.
Thanks!

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