Wouldn't the more appropriate workaround then be to disable the test on windows?
On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 10:57 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 10:53 PM David Edmundson > <da...@davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Given kcrashtest passes locally, can you please confirm that by > > "remove" you mean disable and not remove. > > I mean remove. > > This test is highly dangerous and enters into a fork loop on Windows, > necessitating use of an administrator level console prompt to recover > the system. > Fortunately the grand-parent process terminates after it's child has > successfully forked, which is the only thing stopping this test from > being a fork bomb and totally taking down the system. > > > > > David > > Regards, > Ben
