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Re: poll test failure on Cygwin
From: |
Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: |
Re: poll test failure on Cygwin |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:00:12 +0100 |
>> 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