Re: pspp 1.4.1 on debian - looks good but host test time limit fails on hurd-i386

[Ben Pfaff]

It will also work elsewhere but I don't like how it does polling. I'm
also pretty convinced that this is a Hurd bug of some kind, so I'd
rather just get rid of it someday if they fix the bug.

There are other solutions that would be better all around except that
they would be more complex. Signals and waiting for a child and timers
are nasty in Unix-like systems and I'd rather not get into the
complexity of it all if I can avoid it.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 9:51 AM John Darrington
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>
> Is there any reason why this code can't work for other platforms too.
> If not, then perhaps we don't need the #if __GNU__
>
> J'
>
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:16:26AM +0200, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
>      Ben - you write special code for Hurd. Amazing.
>
>      > Am 07.09.2020 um 23:20 schrieb Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>:
>      >
>      > The bug is a mystery. I think the code should work. However, it
>      > doesn't, so I put in an alternate implementation for Hurd.
>      >
>      > On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 11:41 AM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>      >>
>      >> Oh, it turned out that it just took a while for my SSH key change
>      >> to propagate. I do have access to that now. I'll see what's going on.
>      >>
>      >> On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 3:08 PM Friedrich Beckmann
>      >> <friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de> wrote:
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>>> Am 06.09.2020 um 22:22 schrieb Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>:
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Do you know where I can find a hurd-i386 machine to test on?
>      >>>> The reason for this failure is not evident to me.
>      >>>>
>      >>>> It doesn't look like the GCC Compile Farm has a hurd machine,
>      >>>> and I can't figure out how to log into the one porterbox that
>      >>>> Debian has (it's not managed by the Debian admins like most
>      >>>> are).
>      >>>
>      >>> As I am not DD I had to ask for access always. The hurd I found is
>      >>> probably the one you also found:
>      >>>
>      >>> https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=exodar
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>>
>
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