Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test

[Rob Browning]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> Actually, I see the signalling pipe is left in the parent, so if the
> child has printed nothing it could hang.  Obviously there's something
> wrong if the child doesn't print what's expected, but the change below
> should at least cause an error instead of a hang in that case.

OK, here's what I see with that test code:

Running popen.test
FAIL: popen.test: open-output-pipe: no duplicate
FAIL: popen.test: close-pipe: exit 0
ERROR: popen.test: close-pipe: exit 1 - arguments: ((wrong-number-of-args #f 
"Wrong number of arguments to ~A" (#<procedure #f (pt-entry)>) #f))
ERROR: In procedure fport_flush:
ERROR: Bad file descriptor
ERROR: In procedure fport_flush:
ERROR: Bad file descriptor
Running ports.test

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