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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-03-26 13:52:58 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-03-26 13:52:58 +0200
commitcd65eb97987dc75cd3a7cf88a75544cf2854d870 (patch)
tree34508068a20155795586082230047bb096ed5b0e /tests
parenta4d14d3533099c5c8c47be491fa8fc62ecdc40bd (diff)
downloadcoreutils-cd65eb97987dc75cd3a7cf88a75544cf2854d870.tar.xz
tests: work around F17-valgrind sort-stale-thread-mem failure
* tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem: Skip upon known failure.
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-rwxr-xr-xtests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem7
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diff --git a/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem b/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem
index 55fd139ec..78d169979 100755
--- a/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem
+++ b/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ grep '^#define HAVE_PTHREAD_T 1' "$CONFIG_HEADER" > /dev/null ||
seq -f %-98f 10000 | shuf > in ||
framework_failure_
+# On Fedora-17-beta (valgrind-3.7.0-2.fc17.x86_64), this evokes two
+# "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" errors,
+# each originating from _dl_start.
+# FIXME: change this to a framework_failure_ after release.
+valgrind --quiet --error-exitcode=3 sort --version > /dev/null ||
+ skip_ 'valgrind fails for trivial sort invocation'
+
# With the bug, 'sort' would fail under valgrind about half the time,
# on some circa-2010 multicore Linux platforms. Run the test 100 times
# so that the probability of missing the bug should be about 1 in