This time I'll put the question first: "How worried should I be?" I set up a build of the most recent Debian archive of stable perl (v5.40.1) and saw the following failures in Time::HiRes:

cwd: ~/build/perl/perl-debian-5.40/t
Ran shell command:
   ./perl harness 2>&1 | egrep --color -i -e 'Fail' -
Got output:

-------------------------------------
# Failed test 'atime set correctly'
# Failed test 'mtime set correctly'
# Failed test 'atime set correctly'
# Failed test 'mtime set correctly'
# Failed test 'File 1 atime set correctly'
# Failed test 'File 1 mtime set correctly'
# Failed test 'File 2 atime set correctly'
# Failed test 'File 2 mtime set correctly'
# Looks like you failed 8 tests of 22.
Failed 8/22 subtests
../dist/Time-HiRes/t/utime.t (Wstat: 2048 (exited 8) Tests: 22 Failed: 8)
Failed tests: 2-3, 5-6, 12-15
-------------------------------------

Perl release v5.40.1
Module packed with Perl: Time::HiRes v1.9777
Linux version 6.1.0-12-686
Debian 6.1.52-1 (2023-09-07)

I looked at http://matrix.cpantesters.org/ but I haven't learned to interpret the test matrix yet (I'm pleading ignorance when really I am probably just too distracted right now).

Mar 05, 2025 at 02:47 UTC

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In reply to Perl release v5.40.1 on a 32-bit box showing failed tests for atime and ctime in Time::HiRes by Intrepid

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