The "open-output-pipe":"no duplicate" test has been hanging, on and
off, and not completely reliably, for a few years. It's now doing so
fairly reliably for me, and investigation shows that
- the child shell process is in a tight loop (99% CPU)
- the parent Guile process is stuck calling waitpid().
The problem is that the child hasn't got the SIGPIPE that the test
intends, and so is continuing to echo "closed" forever; and Guile is
waiting for it to terminate, forever.
I haven't fully debugged the SIGPIPE problem, but it sounds very like
what Chet Ramey describes here:
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-SIGPIPE-not-properly-reset-with-%27trap---PIPE%27-p20985595.html.
(And my version of bash is 3.2.39.)
So, a fix should be to use something other than shell to implement the
child; and it appears that this works.
* check-guile.in (TEST_SUITE_DIR): Export.
* test-suite/tests/popen-child.scm: New script file.
* test-suite/tests/popen.test ("open-output-pipe", "no duplicate"):
Use Guile for the child process, instead of shell.
