Subject: Re: Strange test suite behaviour since zsh 5.2-dev-1: C02cond.ztst no more reports its finishing
From: Axel Beckert <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Debian Zsh Maintainers <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:59:30 +0100
List-Id: Zsh Workers List <zsh-workers.zsh.org>

Hi Bart,

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Jan 31,  9:19pm, Axel Beckert wrote:
> } Any ideas what could cause this silent exiting of a .ztst script and
> } why it only appears under certain (yet not 100% clear) conditions?
> 
> Silent exit occurs when the test crashes the test-harness shell.

Yeah, sounds reasonable.

> This is an unfortunate side-effect of the way error output is
> managed by the harness; the only way to detect it is to spot
> coredump files, or find temp files that have never been removed,
> left behind after the "make".
> 
> What circumstances are causing the crash, you'll have to try to run
> down.

I'll try to reproduce it locally again and see what I can find. Thanks
for the hints.

		Regards, Axel
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