Re: [HACKERS] Platform Testing - Cygwin

Thomas,

I have not done any 7.2 testing myself, but Dave reports the following:

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:18:57PM -0000, Dave Page wrote:
> System: Windows XP Professional, PIII 850MHz, 512Mb RAM, 32Gb disk
> uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PC20 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown
>
> Sequential regression tests pass repeatedly.

and:

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:21:08PM -0000, Dave Page wrote:
> 7.2b4 passes *all* tests both parallel and sequential on Windows 2000
> Server.
>
> On XP Pro, and by the sounds of it, any other non-server releases of
> Windows, parallel tests will fail randomly due to Winsock backlog limit of 5
> on these systems (as pointed out by Jason Tishler and documented in
> FAQ_MSWIN).

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:08:57PM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> Jason and Dave, would y'all consider this a tested and supported
> platform then? I'd like to correctly represent this in the ports list in
> the docs for this release, but don't recall having seen a report such as
> "Win+Cygwin work as well as they ever have"...

Since I trust Dave, I feel that the above is an accurate characterization
of the situation.

Jason