Re: /dev/fd/n bug in gawk 3.1.5

[Andrew J. Schorr]

Hi,

Note that the pid test was failing silently: "make check" was
reporting "ALL TESTS PASSED" even though gawk was SEGV'ing
in the pid test.  Attached is a patch to the pid test
that fixes this problem (i.e. the test will now fail noisily).
The problem was that the SEGV was aborting the script
prematurely, and leaving a zero-length output file, which was
precisely correct.  The fix was to make sure that test/pid.awk
produces some output.  That way we get a comparison failure
if the output file is empty.

Patch attached.

Regards,
Andy

pidtest.patch
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