Module Name:    src
Committed By:   rillig
Date:           Tue Jan  7 22:42:14 UTC 2020

Modified Files:
        src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests: modorder.mk

Log Message:
usr.bin/make: document probabilities for random test failures

Side node: this test will never fail between 2024-04-15 and 2024-07-06.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests/modorder.mk

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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Modified files:

Index: src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests/modorder.mk
diff -u src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests/modorder.mk:1.1 src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests/modorder.mk:1.2
--- src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests/modorder.mk:1.1	Thu Aug 21 13:44:51 2014
+++ src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests/modorder.mk	Tue Jan  7 22:42:14 2020
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: modorder.mk,v 1.1 2014/08/21 13:44:51 apb Exp $
+# $NetBSD: modorder.mk,v 1.2 2020/01/07 22:42:14 rillig Exp $
 
 LIST=		one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
 LISTX=		${LIST:Ox}
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ all:
 	@echo "LIST:O    = ${LIST:O}"
 	# Note that 1 in every 10! trials two independently generated
 	# randomized orderings will be the same.  The test framework doesn't
-	# support checking probabilistic output, so we accept that the test
-	# will incorrectly fail with probability 2.8E-7.
+	# support checking probabilistic output, so we accept that each of the
+	# 3 :Ox tests will incorrectly fail with probability 2.756E-7, which
+	# lets the whole test fail once in 1.209.600 runs, on average.
 	@echo "LIST:Ox   = `test '${LIST:Ox}' != '${LIST:Ox}' ${TEST_RESULT}`"
 	@echo "LIST:O:Ox = `test '${LIST:O:Ox}' != '${LIST:O:Ox}' ${TEST_RESULT}`"
 	@echo "LISTX     = `test '${LISTX}' != '${LISTX}' ${TEST_RESULT}`"

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