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| From: | Eric Blake |
| Subject: | Re: coreutils-8.13.29-43a9 on Cygwin |
| Date: | Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:06:13 -0600 |
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On 10/08/2011 10:32 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
On Cygwin 1.7.9: "make" works. Tests: * misc/cat-buf hangs. I had to kill the subordinate 'cat' process several times. After I killed the test, the gt-cat-buf.ghRp directory contained a file 'fifo' which looks like a pipe. But I'm not sure to which extent Cygwin FIFOs emulate Unix FIFOs. On the file system I see a 130 byte fifo.lnk file.
Cygwin FIFOs are known to be broken. They are a work in progress (Windows provides lousy support for emulating POSIX fifos).
In any case, I think it would be better to skip this test on Cygwin. Many test failures...
Yeah, and some of that is due to cygwin-specific patches that I maintain in the cygwin port of coreutils, but haven't yet bothered to isolate and push back upstream. But not my highest priority at the moment, nor has it been a show-stopper for a coreutils release in the past.
-- Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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