Re: A05execution.ztst fails on Cygwin

[İsmail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Peter Stephenson <
p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 12:54:21 +0200
> İsmail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Using latest git;
> >
> > ./A05execution.ztst: starting.
> > This test takes 5 seconds to fail...
> > Pattern match failed:#######
> > <\[<->\] <-> <->
> > >[8] 3212 4644
> > >[6]  - 2456 running    sleep 1000
>
> That's a bit funny.  It appears to be saying the string
> "[8] 3212 4644" doesn't match the pattern '\[<->\] <-> <->'.  Are
> you able to reproduce this from the command line?
>
>   str='[8] 3212 4644'
>   pat='\[<->\] <-> <->'
>   [[ $str = ${~pat} ]] || print Pattern failed to match
>
> Actually, looking at it more closesly, the problem may be that somehow
> the ### output that shows the time being taken have got mixed in with
> standard output from the test itself.
>
> It looks like you can turn off hask marks when output is verbose.  Does
>
> ZTST_verbose=1 make TESTNUM=A05
>
> work any better?
>
>
This fixes the test for me.


> > While running make check I noticed that V08zpty.ztst was hanging. Turns
> out
> > that second part of the test is hanging. The minimal reproducer is:
> >
> > zmodload zsh/zpty
> > zpty cat cat
> > print a line of text | zpty -w cat
> > var=
> > zpty -r cat var && print -r -- ${var%%$'\r\n'}
> > zpty -d cat # <--- HANGS
> >
> > I am not sure if Cygwin is a supported platform but any help would be
> > appreciated.
>
> We don't have the resources to differentiate betwen "supported" and
> "unsupported," we just have to try to fix problems as they turn up as
> best we can wherever they turn up.  Cygwin gets less love and attention
> than more standard Unix-like platforms.  In the case of zpty you may be
> onto a loser: it's hard enough on most systems and worse here.  I'm
> aware of historical problems with <(...) and >(...) substitutions, too.
>

It might makes sense to fail this test on Cygwin then, so I could run make
check semi-regularly and make sure no regressions would be introduced.

Regards.