On 11/10/17 23:34, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: [snip] > Hi Ramsay, > > I assume, given you're emailing me, that this is a Cygwin failure? Yes, sorry, I should have made that clear. > t0021.15 has PERL as a requirement, and I see semi-regular failures from > Git tests that are Perl-based in one way or another (git-svn tests are > the most common problems). I've not spotted t0021 failing in that way, > but it sounds like the same class of problem. Yep, many moons ago, I used to run the svn tests (on Linux and cygwin) which would fail intermittently on cygwin. I didn't notice any problem with perl though. > I dig into these failures when I see them, mostly by running the script > a few hundred times until I get the failure again, and they've always > been Perl itself segfaulting. That points to the problem being in > Cygwin's Perl package rather than Git, and it's very unlikely to be > anything that's got worse in v2.15.0. Since I stopped running the svn tests, the number of intermittent test failures on cygwin have dropped significantly, but haven't gone away completely. I just finished the second test-suite run and, of course, t0021 ran without problem this time. Hmm, I don't think I have time to chase this down at the moment. I will keep your 'perl hypothesis' in mind for next time, however. Thanks. ATB, Ramsay Jones
