As an FYI, this no longer fails under Cygwin 1.7.2 using grep 2.6.1.29. Shiva
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Shiva Iyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Eric. It is cygwin version 1.7. Here is the full version string: > > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 jupiter 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin > > Shiva > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 03/28/2010 10:42 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> > This is probably a bug (or a missing feature) in Cygwin itself. It's >> > probably possible however to find a better initial test to skip this >> > testcase. Eric? >> >> Cygwin 1.5 or 1.7? I'm hoping to look into it more this morning, but no >> promises of a fix before grep-2.6.2. If it _is_ a cygwin bug, however, >> then it is certainly easy to provide a cygwin-specific patch >> independently of whether we release grep today, so I don't think it is a >> huge showstopper, yet. >> >> -- >> Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 >> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org >> >> >
