On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:34:41AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> > > The test case depends on that test-sigchain can commit suicide by a call > to raise(SIGTERM) in a way that run-command.c::wait_or_whine() can detect > as death through a signal. There are no POSIX signals on Windows, and a > sufficiently close emulation is not available in the Microsoft C runtime > (and probably not even possible). > > The particular deficiency is that when a signal is raise()d whose SIG_DFL > action will cause process death (SIGTERM in this case), the > implementation of raise() just calls exit(3). > > We could check for exit code 3 in addition to 143, but that would miss > the point of the test entirely. Hence, just skip it on Windows. Thanks. I wasn't quite clear on how the signal handling worked on Windows, but from your description, I agree there is not any point in running the test at all. Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html