From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1886 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2009 16:35:02 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Feb 2009 16:35:02 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 24069 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2009 16:34:57 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 6 Feb 2009 16:34:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 11007 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2009 16:34:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 26519 Received: (qmail 10996 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2009 16:34:51 -0000 Received: from bifrost.dotsrc.org (130.225.254.106) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 6 Feb 2009 16:34:51 -0000 Received: from cluster-g.mailcontrol.com (cluster-g.mailcontrol.com [208.87.233.190]) by bifrost.dotsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CBBA8802720F for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:34:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from cameurexb01.EUROPE.ROOT.PRI ([193.128.72.68]) by rly19g.srv.mailcontrol.com (MailControl) with ESMTP id n16GX2Nq003462 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:34:31 GMT Received: from news01 ([10.103.143.38]) by cameurexb01.EUROPE.ROOT.PRI with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:33:26 +0000 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:33:25 +0000 From: Peter Stephenson To: Zsh hackers list Subject: Re: Test D03 hang under cygwin 1.7 Message-ID: <20090206163325.0a5db68a@news01> In-Reply-To: <20090206095626.24223f9a@news01> References: <20a807210902052007m4f26f9d8w9cb831c90be3b879@mail.gmail.com> <20090206095626.24223f9a@news01> Organization: CSR X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2009 16:33:26.0142 (UTC) FILETIME=[A28DB9E0:01C98878] X-Scanned-By: MailControl A_08_51_00 (www.mailcontrol.com) on 10.71.0.129 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/8960/Fri Feb 6 13:42:32 2009 on bifrost X-Virus-Status: Clean On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 09:56:26 +0000 Peter Stephenson wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:07:24 -0500 > Vin Shelton wrote: > > Under the soon-to-be-released Cygwin 1.7, I downloaded the latest CVS > > sources and ran a build from scratch. I'm getting a test hang in D03: > > This is process substitution again. This is problematic under Cygwin: > sometimes one of the two forms works, sometimes another, even though both > are notionally present and zsh is simply using documented behaviour that > works on other systems. (The real problem, of course, is that process > handling is intrinsically horrific in Cygwin.) > > I don't think we can do much more than skip the test and put a warning > about related features in the manual. We might be able to add an option to > pick the support we use (named pipes or device files) but that's probably > only of use to the sort of people who could in any case hack the > configuration by hand. ... in fact, could you try #define'ing PATH_DEV_FD in config.h (it's turned off by a special test in configure) and see if that works with the new version of Cygwin? We can always reverse the configured default when that comes out. Thanks. -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070