Re: [xml] 2.6.22 xmlIO test hanging on AIX

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:02:54PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> Something odd is occurring for the xmlIO test on AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2,
> and 5.3 with the IBM C compiler. When I run the test suite:
>   $ ./testapi xmlIO
> it hangs during test_xmlOutputBufferCreateFd(). I started tracing to
> determine where it was hanging:
>   (testapi.c -- test_xmlIO())
>   ...
>   test_ret += test_xmlOutputBufferCreateFd();
>
>   (testapi.c -- test_xmlOutputBufferCreateFd())
>   ...
>   desret_xmlOutputBufferPtr(ret_val);
>
>   (testapi.c -- desret_xmlOutputBufferPtr())
>   xmlOutputBufferClose(val);
>
>   (xmlIO.c - xmlOutputBufferClose())
>   ...
>   if (out->writecallback != NULL)
>       xmlOutputBufferFlush(out);
>
>   (xmlIO.c - xmlOutputBufferFlush())
>   ...
>   ret = out->writecallback(out->context,
>              (const char *)out->buffer->content, out->buffer->use);
>
>
> Once I run the xmlIO test manually, the terminal window hangs after
> the above command and the process exits. I don't see this behavior on
> Solaris, Tru64 UNIX, IRIX, HP-UX, or Redhat Linux.
>
> Any ideas?

  What fd number was used to build the buffer ?
For some reason it interract with something peculiar that AIX is doing :-)

Daniel

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