time: TestOverflowRuntimeTimer failing

[gpaul]

Please merge this into issue #6874 and reopen it.

go version go1.3beta2 +177ed19da89f Wed May 28 14:04:31 2014 -0400 linux/amd64

What steps reproduce the problem?
If possible, include a link to a program on play.golang.org.

This failure is reproduced quickly by running this script.

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#!/bin/sh
set -xe
go test -c -i time
while /bin/true
do
    GOMAXPROCS=$[ 1 + $[ RANDOM % 256 ] ]
    ./time.test -test.v
done 
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What happened?
=== RUN TestOverflowRuntimeTimer-251
--- FAIL: TestOverflowRuntimeTimer-251 (0.10 seconds)
    sleep_test.go:391: runtime timer stuck: overflow in addtimer

What should have happened instead?
=== RUN TestOverflowRuntimeTimer-251
--- PASS: TestOverflowRuntimeTimer-251 (0.01 seconds)

Please provide any additional information below.
uname -a
Linux mybox 3.6.11-4.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 8 20:57:42 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
GNU/Linux

[gpaul]

Comment 1:

This also fails on the latest release-branch.go1.3:
go version go1.3rc1 linux/amd64

[ianlancetaylor]

Comment 2:

Labels changed: added repo-main, release-go1.3maybe.

[ianlancetaylor]

Comment 3:

Actually, resetting this to Go 1.4.  It appears to indicate a problem with the test
rather than an actual problem with the package.

Labels changed: added release-go1.4, removed release-go1.3maybe.

[gopherbot]

Comment 4:

CL https://golang.org/cl/105140043 mentions this issue.

[robpike]

Comment 5:

This issue was closed by revision 83c8140.

Status changed to Fixed.