Re: [boost] [iostreams] example_test and newline_test loop on gcc-3_3-darwin

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-18 10:26:54

On May 18, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Martin Wille wrote:

> Douglas Gregor wrote:
>> The iostreams example_test and newline_test seem to be looping. I've
>> killed them on the OSL tester, but now symmetric_filter_test is
>> currently taking a really long time to run... with the exception of
>> newline_test (which has been failing for a while), all of these tests
>> were passing before yesterday's flurry of iostream modifications.
>
> We need something in the build/test system that limits the amount of
> time and memory taken by the execution of tests. Without that, the 
> tests
> can't be run unattended.

Yep. Perhaps we could teach Boost.Build about "ulimit" on *nix systems.

        Doug