Failing SUnit tests in 3.4b

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Sun Dec 22 03:07:14 UTC 2002


On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 02:15 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:
>
> On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 09:36  PM, Ned Konz wrote:
>
>>> Anyway, I seem to remember something on the list around the time of
>>> the FileDirectory fixes, about a change still needing to be made in
>>> the VM, or in the tests, or something. :-)
>>
>> Yes, we need a VM fix for the Mac. The problem is that the Mac VM
>> caches its lookup for directory entries, and doesn't invalidate the
>> cache after you delete a directory. I submitted a(n untested) fix for
>> the Mac VM, but I don't know if it was incorporated.
>
> I'll look into that. for 3.4.0b3

Good. :-)

>> On Windows 2000 (3.2.3 VM / Tea 1.8 VM):
>> ----------------
>> 1 failed:
>> TestUUIDPrimitives>>testCreationRandom  (this failure was also in 3.2)
>>
>
> Mmm the testCreateRandom runs only if
> 	(UUID new asString last: 12) = (UUID new asString last: 12)
> is false, because I consider that if two UUID have the same last 12  
> octets then we must have a NIC card about.
> However I've heard that some flavors of Windows one-way hash the UUID  
> so that  regular folks cann't backtract to
> a particular nic. So I'm wondering what thouse two UUID being 
> generated  are would be. So could you send me a couple from the problem 
> machine?

Unfortunately, that was my machine at work, which I probably won't have 
access to until next Thursday or so.  (I just have a Mac at home.)  If 
someone else with a Windows machine also sees this problem, perhaps they 
post the UUID's.

- Doug Way




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