ghci and other test failures on Windows - PS

[Simon Marlow]

On 04 September 2004 12:31, Mike Thomas wrote:

> No sooner did I write the email below than this test hung for about
> ten minutes until I killed it:
> 
> ioref001(threaded)

That test takes about 10 seconds on my machine here.  Very strange.

Cheers,
	Simon

> 
> Mike Thomas wrote:
> 
>> Hi Simon.
>> 
>>  > > 3.  The next step after fixing the test script issue for point
>>  1 for > > the Windows regression tests will need to be the Windows
>>  compiler > > crashes and network hangs reported a while ago - no
>>  promises of > > course - the problems I expect are long standing.
>> 
>>  > These must have dropped off my radar - can you remind me?
>> 
>> I just tabulated the first twenty or so ghc compiler crashes as the
>> test suite ran this evening (all of them writes to invalid
>> locations) on stable branch up to date as of about midday:
>> 
>> finalization001.hs
>> hClose001.hs
>> hFileSize001(ghci)
>> hFlush001(ghci)
>> hGetLine001(ghci)
>> hGetPosn001(ghci)
>> hIsEOF002(ghci)
>> hReady001(ghci)
>> hSeek001(ghci)
>> hSeek002(ghci)
>> hSeek003(ghci)
>> hSeek004(ghci)
>> hSetBuffering002(ghci)
>> ioeGetErrorString001(ghci)
>> ioeGetFileName001(ghci)
>> ioeGetHandle001(ghci)
>> misc001(ghci)
>> openFile001(ghci)
>> openFile004(ghci)
>> openFile005(ghci)
>> openFile007(ghci)
>> readFile001(ghci)
>> 
>> So in fact, my assumptions based on memories of net00x test hangs in
>> the past were incorrect - apologies for the misleading report.
>> 
>> Putting that aside however, ghci seems to be having a difficult time.
>> I'll try and look further into these crashes but can't promise to
>> get to it over the forthcoming week.  If we're lucky they will all
>> be caused by the same problem. 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Mike Thomas.
>> 
>> 
> 
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