Hi Ramsay, On Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> I ran the test-suite on the 'pu' branch last night (simply because that > was what I had built at the time!), which resulted in a PASS, but t6120 > was showing a 'TODO passed' for #52. > > This is a test introduced by Michael's 'mg/name-rev-tests-with-short-stack' > branch, which uses 'ulimit -s' to try and force a stack overflow. > Unfortunately, 'ulimit -s' seems to have no effect on cygwin. I created > a test program (see below) to eat up the stack and tried running it with > various ulimit values (128, 12, 8), but it always seg-faulted at the > same stack-frame. (after using approx 2MB stack space). > > So, it looks like all ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE tests need to be disabled > on cygwin. I also wonder about the ULIMIT_FILE_DESCRIPTORS tests, but > haven't looked into it. > > Given that 'ulimit' is a bash built-in, this may also be a problem on > MinGW and Git-For-Windows, but I can't test on those platforms. It is. Thanks, Dscho
