Re: gawk 5.1.1 testsuite failures

[arnold]

This is now in git. Much thanks!

Arnold

"Miguel Pineiro Jr." <mpj@pineiro.cc> wrote:

> Hi, Arnold.
>
>  A suggestion for eliminating the (recently disabled) race in iolint.awk:
>
> Since the test doesn't use --posix, it can use ENVIRON[] to pass to a
> child a string to eval. This makes it easy to execute different, simple
> commands without modifying the redirection expression.
>
> The `read` in the second pipeline prevents the race.
>
> BEGIN {
>       LINT = 1
>
>       # `%.*s' used for input pipe and output pipe
>       pipecmd = "eval $CMD_TO_RUN"
>
>       ENVIRON["CMD_TO_RUN"] = "echo hello"
>       pipecmd | getline junk 
>       ENVIRON["CMD_TO_RUN"] = "read junk"
>       print "hello" | pipecmd
>
>       print close(pipecmd)
>       print close(pipecmd)
>       fflush()
> }
>
> Take care,
> Miguel