Bug#721988: perl: sig ALARM kill the father of a forked process on mips

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 05:19:41PM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.18.1-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi Perl maintainers,
> 
> 
> The following test fails only on MIPS (perl 5.18.1-2 mips):
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> 
> use Test::More;
> use English qw(-no_match_vars);
> 
> plan tests => 1;
> 
> if (my $pid = fork()) {
>     waitpid($pid, 0);
>     ok(
>         $CHILD_ERROR >> 8,
>         'process still running after ALARM signal in child');
> } else {
>     alarm 1;
>     sleep 10;
> }
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> I got this unexpected behavior during fusioninventory-agent build on MIPS.
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=fusioninventory-agent

Is this the right test case? This fails for me on i386 and amd64 too,
both with wheezy (5.14) and sid (5.18).