Re: MI testsuite to use PTY for inferior

[Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:05:26AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:26:59PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:23:44PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 03:31:22PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:32:11PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:23:51PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > > > > Sorry, I'm a little trigger happy, here's the patch.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Patch is OK with formatting corrections.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks Daniel,
> > > > 
> > > > All applied, here's the patch.
> > > > 
> > > > Bob Rossi
> > > 
> > > Umm, I just reran the testsuite after I committed and I get,
> > > 
> > >    Running ../../../src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-syn-frame.exp ...
> > >    FAIL: gdb.mi/mi-syn-frame.exp: testing exec continue
> > >    FAIL: gdb.mi/mi-syn-frame.exp: list stack frames
> > > 
> > > it's most likely this was me, but I just want to make sure someone isn't
> > > pulling my chaing.
> > 
> > Oops,        ^^^^^^, very bad typo. Of course you know what I meant.
> > 
> > Anyways, if I rerun this test, it pass's now. Is this another test that
> > has random results?
> 
> I've never seen it do that before; it's more likely that there's some
> funny race condition in the new pty test code.  Can you reproduce it,
> say, by running the test a couple times in a row?

No, it won't happen again for me, however, I'll keep an eye out for it, 
I run the tests often.

Bob Rossi