Spurious testsuite failures on multi-cpu sparc-solaris2.9

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:50:47AM -0400, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> Works just great for me.  However, I also have the expect patch
> installed.  What I'd like to determine is whether both are needed or
> simply just the solaris2.9 patch.  I'll try recompiling a clean expect
> and see what happens.

AFAIR the expect-Patch helps only if the testcase generates large amounts
of output. Most if not all of your Problems will go away with the
Solaris-Patch alone.

> Also, are previous version of solaris2 affected?  I only saw the patch
> for 2.9.

I have no idea about Solaris 7 or earlier, according to my tests, Solaris 8
is affected, however, a Patch is not yet publicly availiable.

    regards  Christian

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