Re: PATCH: don't run zpty tests on Cygwin

[İsmail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:48:18 +0200
> İsmail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Peter Stephenson <
> p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The tests otherwise ran here, but incredibly slowly, so the problem
> with
> > > the kill didn't show up.  I didn't realise they could run that slowly.
> > >
> >
> > How about disabling zpty compilation on Cygwin completely?
>
> From the mode of the failures I suspect it's not actually fundamentally
> broken, so this seemed a bit drastic.  But given nobody is actually
> likely to look at the problems (I might see how far I can get if I have
> some spare time, but it's likely to reach a dead end quite quickly)
> that's an option.
>
> I doubt it's going to cause anyone else grief either way.
>

This makes sense, you are right.