[[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thu Aug 1 23:12:26 2002]:
> We tracked this problem to the use of parallel make (make -P under > IRIX). The test routines run shell scripts that are not safe to > run in parallel. For example, in tx509 there is the sequence: > cp $t fff.p > $cmd -in fff.p -inform p -outform p >f.p > cmp fff.p f.p > > But trsa was run at the same time, and it has the sequence: > cp $t fff.p > $cmd -in fff.p -inform p -outform p >f.p > cmp fff.p f.p > > This leads to a race condition, and causes the cmp to fail. > > A simple fix would be to use unique names for the temporary files > for each test. Ah, that explains a lot. I think I will change the status of this ticket to be fixed for 0.9.8, and simply add an entry about this in PROBLEMS. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
