On Tue, May 21 2019, David Bremner wrote: > Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes: > >> Without this stdin may be anything that parent process provided for it. >> >> Test processes might have tried to read something from it, which would >> have caused undeterministic behavior. >> >> E.g. gdb(1) tries to do tty related ioctls on fd 0 (and fd 1 and fd 2, >> but those are redirected to 'test.output' before test runs). >> --- >> >> Hopefully this fixes the parallel problems -- In case of moreutils parallel >> only stdout and stderr are captured and all other fd's left untouched >> (provided I read web namual correctly). With GNU parallel docs did not >> help -- but as we pipe $TESTS to parallel in that case things might be >> even more complicated there (i don't undersand why but anyway) > > I can confirm that this seems to fix the parallel test problems with > moreutils parallel and GNU. > > I think I'm leaning towards this fix between the two, but I'll sleep on > it and decide tommorow. ... and when you merge this one, please amend /dev/tty -> /dev/null --- in subject line of the commit message ;D Tomi > > d > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list > notmuch@notmuchmail.org > https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch