#608332 eglibc: tst-nice fails for nice=19

Package:
src:glibc
Source:
glibc
Submitter:
Jakub Wilk
Date:
2014-06-26 14:57:19 UTC
Severity:
minor
#608332#5
Date:
2010-12-29 23:51:57 UTC
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To:
$ gcc -O2 -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE posix/tst-nice.c -o tst-nice
$ nice -n19 ./tst-nice
FAIL: retval (19) of nice(10) != 29


As a consequence, eglibc FTBFS when built with such a high niceness.
#608332#14
Date:
2011-06-04 16:49:55 UTC
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To:
tag 608332 + wontfix
thanks

eglibc provides low level functions more or less corresponding to
kernel syscalls. The associated testsuite tests these low level
functions and thus require that the syscalls behave as expected.

If you change the environment to the point that some syscalls behave
differently than expected, it doesn't make sense to run the testsuite.
It is possible to disable it defining DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nocheck".

I am therefore tagging this bug as wontfix.