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Id: 28603
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: XML-Simple
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: ANDK [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Critical
Broken in: 2.16
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Wed Aug 01 02:42:07 2007 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Random test results
I tested XML::Simple today with a wide range of perl versions and repeated the tests so long until I had one PASS and one FAIL for each of them. The results will appear on http://cpantesters.perl.org/show/XML-Simple.html in the next hours. It is apparent to me that there is something fishy going on. And no, I'm not on NFS.
  Wed Aug 01 06:46:46 2007 grant [...] mclean.net.nz - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #28603] Random test results
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:45:28 +1200
To: bug-XML-Simple [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Grant McLean <grant [...] mclean.net.nz>
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:42 -0400, Andreas Koenig via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> I tested XML::Simple today with a wide range of perl versions and > repeated the tests so long until I had one PASS and one FAIL for each of > them. The results will appear on > http://cpantesters.perl.org/show/XML-Simple.html in the next hours.
Thank you for all the effort you have put into this. I wasn't aware that there was a problem, but clearly there is. Show quoted text
> It is apparent to me that there is something fishy going on. And no, I'm > not on NFS.
The test that is failing is trying to confirm that with storable caching enabled, XML::Simple uses the .stor file rather than the .xml file if the .stor file is newer. In the cases where the test fails, XML::Simple has decided to parse the XML file. I was able to replicate the problem by running prove t/3_Storable.t in a loop. It dies after 30 iterations. Thanks again for your work in bringing this to my attention. Regards Grant
  Wed Aug 01 06:46:56 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Aug 02 07:05:00 2007 grantm [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
This problem should be fixed in the 2.17 release. Once the failing test, was isolated I could reliably reproduce a failure within a couple of minutes. After fixing the test script it looped without failure for over an hour. Let me know if problems reoccur.
  Thu Aug 02 07:05:05 2007 grantm [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'