Re: Problem with running tests during installing coreutils-5.94

[Bob Proulx]

Adam Waltman wrote:
> Could anything be done to help me not to rebooot the server every time?

This really makes no sense to me.  I heard you mention it before but I
ignored it then.  Why do you have to reboot your machine even once?
User space processes should not be able to crash the kernel.

Since shred does many read and writes of the disk is it possible that
you are having a disk drive failure and this problem rebooting your
machine is really a symptom of a hardware problem?

> Finally I have  applied patch from Paul Eggert
> > I've long been suspicious of the 'alloca' inside shred.c.  Can you
> > please apply the patch at the end of this message?
> And it helped!
> Shred works as it should, make check passes all the test.

There are multiple problems happening here.

Bob