Re: lib/52007: New failures in lib/libevent/t_event test

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR lib/52007; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/52007: New failures in lib/libevent/t_event test
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:14:02 -0500

 On Nov 22, 11:48am, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: lib/52007: New failures in lib/libevent/t_event test
 
 | I'd argue that the test progam should be removed (from the ATF suite)
 | completely.
 | 
 | The tests require:
 | 
 |  - pretty fast hardware
 |  - a working network connection
 |  - for best results a DNS on 127.0.0.1 (hard coded into the tests).
 | 
 | The tests alway fail on all slower machines (that is in the order of
 | less than 1.5 GHz cpu speed).
 | 
 | They should be run after an import once, natively on a properly setup
 | machine, but there is no point having them fail always and everywhere.
 
 Let's create a pre-test that tests if there is networking and DNS?
 
 christos