Re: ITS#7317

[hyc@symas.com]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
>> michael@stroeder.com wrote:
>>> Hmm, another 100 iterations without a problem. Not sure whether it's related
>>> to back-mdb or whether this may happen occasionally with other backends too.
>>> Trying more...
>>
>> Looks like a simple timing dependency in the test script. slapcat of the DB in
>> your testrun directory shows that the correct value is present. The refint
>> overlay does its work in a separate task, so there's no guarantee it will be
>> done by the time the original modrdn request finishes.
>
> Ok, noted.
>
>> We could add a SLEEP in the script here but it seems to be such a rare
>> occurrence I'm inclined to ignore it.
>
> Hmm, I'd argue that a SLEEP would be helpful to avoid further questions about
> it. A OpenLDAP packager might run "make test" routinely and this issue aborts it.

I've replaced the hardcoded "sleep 1" in the script with "sleep $SLEEP0" so it 
can be overridden along with the other SLEEP1/SLEEP2 values.

Packagers running the tests should either ensure they're on an idle enough 
machine, or set larger values in their environment...
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