Re: [PATCH] t0005: skip signal death exit code test on Windows

> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
>>
>> The test case depends on that test-sigchain can commit suicide by a call
>> to raise(SIGTERM) in a way that run-command.c::wait_or_whine() can detect
>> as death through a signal. There are no POSIX signals on Windows, and a
>> sufficiently close emulation is not available in the Microsoft C runtime
>> (and probably not even possible).
>>
>> The particular deficiency is that when a signal is raise()d whose SIG_DFL
>> action will cause process death (SIGTERM in this case), the
>> implementation of raise() just calls exit(3).
>>
>> We could check for exit code 3 in addition to 143, but that would miss
>> the point of the test entirely. Hence, just skip it on Windows.
>>
>
> Huh? We do "exit(128 + sigint);" in mingw_raise these days, no?
>
> Or is the signal triggered from a non-git process?