Re: [gpsd-dev] ✘regress-driver broken

[Fred Wright]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Fred Wright wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> > > Fails for me.  See below.
> >
> > I don't know what's going on here.  Your IRC guess that you may be blowing 
> > past
> > a length limit in the test harness may be right.  Won't be Python, as that
> > has dynamic allocation; might be sed.
> >
> > If we can find out whast the real firlds in a 1097 are that would probably
> > be shorter.
>
> I've confirmed that:
>
> 1) All discrepancies are due to records (lines) being exactly duplicated.
>
> 2) Of the 17 discrepancies, 14 are type 1107, one is type 1019, one is
> type 1044, and one is type 1046.
>
> 3) The duplications are present in the raw output from gpsfake, so the
> problem isn't sed's fault.

And a bit more investigation shows:

4) The data is *not* duplicated at the point where client.py receives it
from the daemon, so it's a test harness bug.

Fred Wright