[PATCH] tests: avoid unusual (~1-in-20) failure of a new test

[Jim Meyering]

It was not easy to reproduce this one.

>From b726914a4c1ea8f943359d9ad19a09d3ee606694 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:34:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid unusual (~1-in-20) failure of a new test

* tests/misc/sort: Remove one of the generated tests.
363 remain in this file alone.
---
 tests/misc/sort |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/misc/sort b/tests/misc/sort
index a27f47a..c5a2d74 100755
--- a/tests/misc/sort
+++ b/tests/misc/sort
@@ -369,6 +369,14 @@ foreach my $t (@Tests)

 @Tests = triple_test address@hidden;

+# Remember that triple_test creates from each test with exactly one "IN"
+# file two more tests (.p and .r suffix on name) corresponding to reading
+# input from a file and from a pipe.  The pipe-reading test would fail
+# due to a race condition about 1 in 20 times.
+# Remove the IN_PIPE version of the "output-is-input" test above.
+# The others aren't susceptible because they have three inputs each.
address@hidden = grep {$_->[0] ne 'output-is-input.p'} @Tests;
+
 my $save_temps = $ENV{DEBUG};
 my $verbose = $ENV{VERBOSE};

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