Re: poll test failure on Cygwin

[Paolo Bonzini]

>> On the other hand, poll/select are broken on Windows for pipes anyway
>> (and not fixable), so they probably shouldn't be tested in
>> test-poll/test-select.
>
> Maybe for native Windows pipes, but cygwin can implement Unix pipes
> using something other than native Windows pipes and get correct
> semantics, insofar as pipes are only used between cygwin processes (but
> the moment you cross between cygwin-to-non-cygwin, then you are
> relegated to using native Windows pipes with all their flaws).

Indeed, the problem is, should we test something the replacement does
not really fix?

Paolo