Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils General Discussion <[email protected]>
writes:
> Today's CI (and all the CI runs since 2026-05-18) reports a test failure
> on NetBSD 10.0:
>
> ERROR: tests/tail/pid-pipe
> ==========================
>
> pid-pipe.sh: set-up failure:
> local: set-up: bad variable name
> ERROR tests/tail/pid-pipe.sh (exit status: 99)
>
>
> Anyone understands this message "local: set-up: bad variable name"?
> I'm stumped.
>
> But since the CI run on 2026-05-11 was successful on NetBSD, it looks
> like the commit a6ba6a23ad9488528f201a45200d317600447a05 is the culprit.
Thanks.
The error message is confusing, but you can add a 'set -x' above this
line to see that 'retry_delay_' fails:
retry_delay_ writer_ready_ .1 6 || framework_failure_
Unfortunately, it seems like this will be quite a bit of work to
investigate. Using 'ktrace' makes the test pass, so it is not impossible
to see what system calls are misbehaving.
It kind of reminds me of when I tried to look into tests/tail/pipe-f2.sh
on NetBSD.
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