Hi Michael, On Fri, 15 Sep 2017, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 15.09.2017 00:21: > > > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Michael J Gruber wrote: > > > >> test-lib determines whether a file-system supports FIFOs and needs to do > >> special casing for CYGWIN and MINGW. This separates those system > >> specific settings from those at more central place. > >> > >> Set mkfifo() to false in the central system specific place so that the > >> same test works everywhere. > > > > The mkfifo() emulation of Cygwin seems to work, no? I think it works even > > in MSYS2, but not in MINGW. > > > > So maybe this patch should affect only the MINGW arm? > > I only reorganised the code, so in that sense the patch does not affect > any system ;) > > If indeed mkfifo works on CYGWIN than a separate patch should remove the > exclusion of CYGWIN; alas, I can't confirm (I wish MS still had the old > academic alliance programme). You don't need an academic license, as there are free VMs available (they expire after a while, though): https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines It seems that the current free VM will expire in 4 days. After that, probably a new one will be available that expires some time later (not sure about the exact time frame of those VMs). Alternatively, you can download VMs meant for web testing at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ which expire after 90 days. Ciao, Dscho
