From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Blandy To: Michael Snyder Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Why do ^C tests fail on linux? Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:20:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3B1BEED9.29726712@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00031.html Michael Snyder writes: > Since I know that there is another test in the testsuite that > tests the same thing (interrupt.exp), I checked to see if that > was also failing, and discovered that it has been xfailed for > i*86-pc-linux-gnu since 1996, with no comment to explain why. I can't think of any reason this shouldn't work normally. Perhaps in 1996 Linux's signal handling or job control wasn't up to par, but I think we can raise our expectations a bit nowadays.