Re: IPC::Run test hang under 5.8.5 and 5.8.6

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> Upgrading from my 5.8.4 to 5.8.6, I found this.  cygwin dll is 1.5.12.
> 
> IPC::Run is hanging in t/run after test 62.  The hang happens in this:
> 
> $ perl5.8.6 -MIPC::Run=run -we'$in="-"x 20000 ."end\n";$out="REPLACE ME"; run([
> $^X, ("-e", qq!print"="x20000;<STDIN>;!)],\$in,\$out)'
> 
> but not under my 5.8.4 build.  The cygwin release of 5.8.5 also hangs.
> Not sure what to make of this; there have been some pipe changes in cygwin
> recently, but I'd expect 5.8.4 to fail also if it were due to those.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas or advice?
> 

Remove 5.8.5 from the distribtion and release 5.8.4 as stable and don't
update until perl is fixed.

I have not investigated much about the recent perl problems, there are 
lots of threads tests failing too so in this state no update can be
released.  If I build without threads then the IPC issues are remaining.
BTW I saw more than just one error with IPC tests but no hangs.

5.8.5 was compiled without IPC support.  So I would remove it until it
is fixed, but removing threads support would break binary compatibility
once again.  However I tend to remove it for now and try to get it fixed
for perl 5.10.


Gerrit
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