Re: [Boost-testing] [Boost.testing]Timeout code wierdness

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-29 17:18:10

K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> 
>> K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
>>> You may want to hold off a little bit more before releasing the new
>>> Boost.Jam (3.1.15).  I think there's still a subtle failure pathway
>>> that can permit subprocesses to fail to terminate correctly on unix.
>>> I'm tracking it down now, sorry about the late notice.
>> :-(
>>
>> ...Here's hoping that you can fix it quickly. As I really want to do a
>> release this weekend.
> 
> Fixed.  I forgot to limit the select timeout interval to a positive  
> number, really, really weak.

Great, thanks for fixing it quickly :-) ...Now I just need to figure out 
how to work around a bug in the 'tar' program for Ubuntu so I can do the 
release :-(

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