Re: test-getaddrinfo fails if net is down

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 12 March 2009 09:47:34 Jim Meyering wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > this might sound like a no brainer, but `make check` will fail if
> > attempted to run offline because of the test-getaddrinfo test.  perhaps
> > it should attempt a simple "is the network alive" and SKIP if it isnt ?
>
> Thanks for the report.
> Can you reproduce this with the latest snapshot?
> I thought this was fixed in gnulib over a month ago:
>
> commit 283dd26efdfbeeff672cbcb0e6811f54e032364f
> Author: Mark McLoughlin <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Jan 27 19:06:31 2009 +0100
>
>     test-getaddrinfo: skip (don't fail) this test when there's no network
>
>     * tests/test-getaddrinfo.c: Skip test upon failure with EAI_AGAIN,
>     on the presumption that it means you lack network access.

yes, the issue is properly skipped in coreutils 7.1 when the network is down.  
sorry for the noise.
-mike

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