Description
When race.bash
was originally added (back in CL 7179052), the Go compiler was still written in C and thus was not meaningful to test under the race detector.
(I'm not sure why the rest of cmd
was not tested under the race detector at that point. Perhaps @davecheney remembers?)
When race.bash
was gutted and moved into cmd/dist
, that behavior was retained:
Lines 1529 to 1532 in b3b174f
These days, cmd
includes an extensive amount of Go code, much of which includes non-trivial concurrency, and some of which exercises packages that do not themselves have race-detector tests (#32783).
I think we should be testing all of cmd
under the race detector, not just std
. It will increase builder latency and potentially cost more resources, but the additional benefit of testing the concurrent code in cmd
seems well worth the cost.
CC @golang/osp-team @josharian @dvyukov