Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

>> I suppose you lose the aggregated tests counts at the end.  If all
>> tests work (which is presumably the normal case!) I guess it doesn't
>> matter much either way.
>
> I wonder if those test counts are actually all that useful.  I would
> guess that most of the time you only care whether there was an error
> or not.

Beside the test counts (which I find useful), running all the scripts in
a single process increases the chance of catching nasty bugs, as you
noticed.  ;-)  So I think it makes sense to keep it as is.

Thanks,
Ludovic.