Re: [PATCH] Increase timeout in gdb.mi/list-thread-groups-available.exp

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 2019-08-02 9:43 a.m., Tom Tromey wrote:
> I'm reluctant to make the test suite more sensitive to the environment
> it's running it.  Is the reason to do this that the test can time out
> normally, and so we'd like to avoid lengthy timeouts?  If that's the
> case, can the test be fixed somehow instead?
> 
> I guess my mental model here is that a timeout should not matter unless
> a test is flaky.  But maybe that's naive?  I don't know :-)

No, the test is not expected to time out under normal circumstances.  The advantage
of having with_read1_timeout_factor is just that if we happen to break this test
and make it time out, we'll have to wait 10 seconds instead of 100 when running without
read1.

Given that the probability of breaking this test is very small, I don't have
a strong opinion on the matter, it doesn't affect the correctness of the testsuite.

Simon