perl 5.8.8 syslog tests failing on MacOS X (sometimes)

[Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni]

Edmund von der Burg wrote:

> There seems no real reason for it - I'll poke around and see if there
> is an underlying cause. I agree that just skipping tests seems wrong.
>
> If I run the tests quickly using:
>
>   while true; do
>     if ./perl harness ../ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t;
>       then echo pass >> results;
>       else echo fail >> results;
>     fi;
>   done
>
> then 'cat results | sort | uniq -c' gives:
>
>   61 fail
>   51 pass
>
> With sleep 4 then it changes to
>
>   38 fail
>   24 pass

I'll try to reproduce this on my OSX to see if a pattern can be found.

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Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni

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