Re: [Nmh-workers] Starting the final call for features for 1.7

[David Levine]

Ralph wrote:

> Hi Oliver,
>
> > A number of tests are failing on Solaris. This seems to mostly consist
> > of:
> >   id: illegal option -- u
> >   Usage: id [-ap] [user]
> >   FAIL: test/mhmail/test-mhmail
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/test/post/test-post-common.sh#n12
> suggests the effective user ID is only used to cook up a `64000 + $euid
> % 1000' port for the fake SMTP server to listen on.  Presumably,
> something more steady that the sh's $$ is sought?

I replaced with $$.  The idea was to allow overlapping invocations of
the test suite, that's good enough.

I didn't receive Oliver's message, though it is in the archive.

David