Some systems cannot read a 2GiB line into memory, and would cause a new test to appear to fail. Treat that as "SKIP" rather than "FAIL".
From c2731742fb9964f155c8d03ded8fac80d86b9ed8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 09:49:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid FP failure due to exhausted memory
* tests/long-line-vs-2GiB-read: Don't declare the test "failed" when running out of memory. In that case, skip it. --- tests/long-line-vs-2GiB-read | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/long-line-vs-2GiB-read b/tests/long-line-vs-2GiB-read index 773c542..29d29ec 100755 --- a/tests/long-line-vs-2GiB-read +++ b/tests/long-line-vs-2GiB-read @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ dd bs=$MiB seek=2048 of=big < /dev/null || framework_failure_ echo x >> big || framework_failure_ grep -l x big > out 2> err || fail=1 +# Not everyone has 2GB of memory free. +grep '^grep: memory exhausted$' err && skip_ 'memory exhausted' + compare exp out || fail=1 compare /dev/null err || fail=1 -- 1.8.5.rc2.6.gc6f1b92
