Re: [PATCH 1/2] test-lib: group system specific FIFO tests by system

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 14, 2017, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1709150020070.219280@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <4482ae18370f3e759bf98f71e15eaab19fdd009a.1505400392.git.git@grubix.eu>

Hi Michael,

On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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> test-lib determines whether a file-system supports FIFOs and needs to do
> special casing for CYGWIN and MINGW. This separates those system
> specific settings from those at more central place.
> 
> Set mkfifo()  to false in the central system specific place so that the
> same test works everywhere.

The mkfifo() emulation of Cygwin seems to work, no? I think it works even in MSYS2, but not in MINGW.

So maybe this patch should affect only the MINGW arm?

Ciao, Dscho