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

> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:34:41AM +0200, Johannes Sixt 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.
>
> Thanks. I wasn't quite clear on how the signal handling worked on
> Windows, but from your description, I agree there is not any point in
> running the test at all.