Re: Go on NetBSD needs love

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 04:31:17PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:41:27AM -0700, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
>  > I only identified it as a kernel crash the other day. We had assumed it was
>  > our bug prior to that.
>  > 
>  > But many similar looking bugs exist already:
>  > 
>  > http://gnats.netbsd.org/44402
>  > http://gnats.netbsd.org/42319
>  > http://gnats.netbsd.org/52065
>  > http://gnats.netbsd.org/46224
> 
> Those are all completely different bugs; the only thing they have in
> common is the kernel-level equivalent of SIGSEGV.
> 
>  > >     https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20836
> 
> leads to
>    https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14127
> which leads to
>    http://gnats.netbsd.org/50730
> which is fixed but the fix is apparently not in 7.1.

From the follow-up, it is far from clear that it is fixed completely.

I'm running current with https://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/kern_event.c.diff
with the go 1.8.3 test suite in an infinite loop. Modulo the Perl 5.26.0
issue in vet_test and some occassional time outs from individual tests,
I don't see any issues.

Joerg