Re: [bug-libunistring] [platform-testers] libunistring 0.9.6 first release candidate

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Daiki,

> Am 02.07.2015 um 07:59 schrieb Daiki Ueno <address@hidden>:
> 
> Dagobert Michelsen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>> (dbx) run                                                                   
>>>  
>>> Running: test-u16-strstr 
>>> (process id 23637)
>>> Reading libc_psr.so.1
>>> terminating signal 14 SIGALRM
>>> (dbx) where
>>> dbx: program is not active
>>> (dbx)
> 
> Sorry, I somehow missed the fact that the test really uses alarm for
> timeout handling:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/tests/unistr/test-u16-strstr.c#n41
> 
> I did the build on your system (thanks for giving me the access), and
> the test can indeed take over 5 seconds (= the timeout value):
> 
>  $ time ./test-u16-strstr 
>  real    0m5.281s
>  user    0m5.128s
>  sys     0m0.162s
> 
> I suppose the problem is intermittent and might be fixed by running it
> when the system is not so busy, but if it still constantly occurs, we
> could increase the timeout value (though it should be carefully chosen,
> based on the algorithm complexity).

The machine is rather slow than overloaded, I guess more time (10?) would be 
good.

Best regards -- Dago