Re: Testlib.pm vs msys

On 07/25/2017 02:45 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Anyway, if we believe that it broke with f13ea95f9, hen it's plausible
>> that CMD.EXE has been sharing pg_ctl's stdout/stderr all along, and we
>> just had not noticed before. Could you check what happens if we
>> change the bInheritHandles parameter as I suggested upthread?
>>
>>
>
> I'll try when I get all the animals caught up.
>

This made no difference. And I'm not really surprised, since the test is
not hanging when run from an MSVC build. The latter fact makes me
theorize that the problem arises from the fairly ancient perl that Msys
provides, and which we need to use to run prove so the TAP tests
understand the environment's virtualized file paths.

The attached patch should get around the problem without upsetting the
good work you've been doing in reducing TAP test times generally.

cheers

andrew

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