On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On how slow a machine do we want the regression tests, specifically
> forward-control.sh, to still work?
>
> On my Alpha PC164 (21164-500, ~1997), the forward-control test
> produces erratic results. It eventually dawned on me that this is
> just a timing problem. Bumping the timeouts from 5 to 10s makes
> it run reliably. But then I''m sure Miod has even slower machines,
> so I don''t know what we want to accommodate.
I think waiting 10s or longer is okay, since in the normal case we
should never have to wait that long. I''d love a way to make this test
work without polling, but I couldn''t figure out how when I wrote the
test.
Your diff is ok djm@
-d