t/pmc/filehandle.t t/pmc/io.t: test failures in master

[James E Keenan]

On 3/20/13 2:53 AM, Bruce Gray wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I appreciate your testing.
> I got the same failures during my (last-minute) testing for the release of 5.2.0.
>
> Everyone,
> I am delaying the release by 24 hours, and coordinating with gerd on fixing
> or reverting the premature merge from io-refactor, which is the source of
> the failures in t/pmc/io.t and t/pmc/filehandle.t.
>

Everyone:

These two test failures persist in master as of today (Sat Mar 23), 
commit bba45f716af6b76633c5e1771b89c917827aac21.

The first appeared in commit 2dcc1f4d5a258b72767591c1665dfbdc5e1478a7 on 
Sun Mar 10.  13 days -- that's a long-time, as Parrot history goes, for 
tests in master to continue to fail on our most frequently tested 
platform (Linux/i386).  Moreover, I can't recall another time when we've 
missed our monthly release date by as much as four days.

We could have avoided that with a simple 'make test' before the commit 
(or merge).

If we can't get these test failures fixed by Monday, then I would 
recommend reverting the series of commits merged in on March 11 so that 
we can get out a release and proceed afresh.  Please let me know if 
there's anything I can do to make that happen.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan