Re: minor windows & cygwin regression failures on stable

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>I'm not quite sure what question I should be asking of the Cygwin people.
>>Tom, Can you suggest something?
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>It sounds to me like the problem is that the backend executing the test
>script is in a tight loop (due to the half-baked implementation of sleep())
>and for some reason this prevents the stats processes from running ---
>for a far longer period than it by rights ought to. Ask about recent
>changes in process scheduling policy. (I suppose that actually it's
>Windows doing the scheduling, but what we want to know about is cygwin
>changes that might have affected Windows scheduling parameters.)
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The only answer so far received says:

Sounds to me like yet another case of
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html

cheers

andrew