From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 21:32:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t6500: don't run detached auto gc at the end of the test script
Message-ID: <426f08b9-79c8-0c5b-e07e-4dd6a49243e9@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170410170154.qwzaolflrvsduwzd@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 10.04.2017 um 19:01 schrieb Jeff King:
> I wonder if you could make it a general test-lib function, like:
>
>   run_and_wait () {
> 	# we read stdout from the child only for the side effect
> 	# of waiting until all child sub-processes exit, closing their
> 	# fd 9.
> 	does_not_matter=$("$@" 9>&1)

I'm afraid this won't work on Windows when the invoked command is git. 
FD inheritance between MSYS (bash) and non-MSYS programs (git) is only 
implemented for FDs 0,1,2. That's a deficiency of MSYS, and I don't 
think that was improved in MSYS2.

>   }

-- Hannes