Hi Peter. It seems our patches crossed... At Friday 06 August 2010, Peter Rosin wrote: > As seen above, kill seems to always work once it starts to work, > so I tried to insert a sleep before the first kill. That "fixes" > it. I have 10+ consecutive successes, no fails. > > Please apply this on top of maint: > > Cheers, > Peter
> diff --git a/tests/cond5.test b/tests/cond5.test > index 84afdd0..88e2e42 100755 > --- a/tests/cond5.test > +++ b/tests/cond5.test > @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ $ACLOCAL > $AUTOMAKE 2>stderr & > pid=$! > > +# MSYS bash seems to have a bug in kill, so don't try to kill too soon. > +sleep 2 > + > # Make at most 30 tries, one every 10 seconds (= 300 seconds = 5 min). > try=1 > while test $try -le 30; do Your patch is defintely simpler, but I still prefer mine (well, I will if it works ;-), since it is also more "theoretically" correct. If my patch works also on MSYS, do you have any objections to it? Regards, Stefano
