Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] t/helper/simple-ipc: convert test-simple-ipc to use start_bg_command

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2021, 16:01 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtughtlb9.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CA+kUOanh1m=dkE-gDikg53zOPXx_7v65ggqxPspuZWDbdOrR=g@mail.gmail.com>

Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> writes:

> I have just run the complete test suite on rc2, both with and without
> this patch, and I can confirm it resolves this problem and doesn't
> cause any other new test failures.

Thanks for a good news.

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> But yes, the (lack of) speed of running the Git test suite on Cygwin
> is one of the reasons I run the tests on high-spec Azure VMs rather
> than my own systems. Unfortunately the Cygwin compatibility layer plus
> the overheads of NTFS mean things are unlikely to get significantly
> quicker any time soon, and between WSL and Git for Windows, I expect
> interest in improving Cygwin's performance is going to continue to
> wane.

Out of curiosity, are the use cases and user base of Cygwin waning, or are there still viable cases where Cygwin is a more preferred solution over WSL (the question is not limited to use of Git)?