[bug#72536] [PATCH v3] tap: new `--stderr-prefix' option to prefix test script's stderr

2025-02-21 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
On 2/21/25 18:21, Richard Hansen wrote: On 2/20/25 19:29, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: Could we filter both stdout and stderr through functions that timestamp each line, then merge the two and sort on the timestamps? Unfortunately this wouldn't help---it would be subject to the same reordering race

[bug#72536] [PATCH v4] tap: new `--stderr-prefix' option to prefix test script's stderr

2025-02-21 Thread Richard Hansen
Attached is v4 of the patch series. Changes from v3: * Don't process stderr if not prefixing stderr (stderr and stdout will refer to the same underlying file if --merge is passed, preserving the previous behavior) * Flush each line of stdout when prefixing to hopefully reduce out-of-order

[bug#72536] [PATCH v3] tap: new `--stderr-prefix' option to prefix test script's stderr

2025-02-21 Thread Richard Hansen
On 2/20/25 19:29, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: Could we filter both stdout and stderr through functions that timestamp each line, then merge the two and sort on the timestamps? Unfortunately this wouldn't help---it would be subject to the same reordering race condition. The timestamp value that is

[bug#72536] [PATCH v3] tap: new `--stderr-prefix' option to prefix test script's stderr

2025-02-21 Thread Richard Hansen
On 2/20/25 18:23, Karl Berry wrote: (a) not piping stderr through the prefixing function when the prefix is the empty string, and (b) avoiding stdout buffering when stderr is prefixed. Those sound desirable in any case. Especially the first. It's highly desirable for existing behavior to rema

[bug#72536] [PATCH v3] tap: new `--stderr-prefix' option to prefix test script's stderr

2025-02-21 Thread Karl Berry
we would need to get high-precision timestamps from date(1) Sounds like a nightmare :(. -k

[bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool to automake.

2025-02-21 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Kamila, Subject: [bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool to I just pushed this (plus a simple test) for the next automake release. Thanks again. --best, karl.