[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,

The test case concio001 fails like this on the PPC Mac OS X builder 
tnaur-ppc-osx, most likely because of a simple timing problem:

=====> concio001(normal) cd . && $MAKE -s --no-print-directory test.concio001 </dev/null >concio001.run.stdout 2>concio001.run.stderr
Actual stdout output differs from expected:
--- ./concio001.stdout.normalised       2008-02-06 08:18:52.000000000 +0100
+++ ./concio001.run.stdout.normalised   2008-02-06 08:18:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-child
 parent
*** unexpected failure for concio001(normal)

Briefly, the test uses

(sleep 1; echo x) | ./concio001

to run the program

$ cat concio001.hs import Control.Concurrent

main = do
  forkIO $ do threadDelay  100000; putStrLn "child"
  getLine
  putStrLn "parent"
$

expecting the sleep 1 delay to be sufficient for the program to start running, performing its threadDelay and 
printing the "child" string, before the "parent" gets its input "x". But 
apparently, sleep 1 is insufficient in some cases.

If I run the test by hand, it succeeds. If I run the test alongside other 
processes that tries to spend disk I/O bandwith and/or CPU and/or memory, I am 
able to make it fail. So it appears that such circumstances are present during 
the buildbot running of the concio001 test.

I am not sure how to cure this. I am confident that simply increasing the sleep 
time would remove the problem in practice. However, perhaps some less brittle 
solution could be found.

While you're looking at this one, could you verify that we can now close #1523?

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1523

I'm going to disable this concio001 test and replace it with one that is hopefully more reliable, I'll push after I've validated it.

Cheers,
        Simon

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