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Re: Which test files need to use the watchdog() function?

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Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
> If anyone knows of core test files that would benefit from
> using the forthcoming watchdog() function that will be
> added to test.pl, please let me know so I can start
> generating patches.  Thanks.
Steve Hay wrote:
> What about tests in dual-lived modules, rather than core
> tests?
>
> My last two VC++ smokes of bleadperl hung on
> ext/IO/t/io_linenum.t and eventually led to the whole
> smoke job getting killed (I run each smoke as a
> Win32::Job).
>
> But IO is a dual-lived module, so its tests use Test
> rather than test.pl and hence don't have the watchdog()
> function available.
If the dual-lived module already includes a copy of core's
test.pl, then the module can update the copy in their CPAN
module and make use of the watchdog() function.  IO is such
a module.
(However, there still appears to be some issue with
watchdog(), so please don't use it yet.)

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