Re: a coreutils release is imminent

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here's the summary of failures seen so far on cygwin; I haven't had time
> to run verbose logs yet, and it appears the testsuite is hung in
> sort-compress.  From past experience, several failures are related to
> cygwin's tough stance on no absolute file names longer than 260 bytes.

Thanks for the summary.

I'd be happy with patches that add a single script per misfeature, e.g.,

  tests/short-max-abs-filename-length-bug
  tests/unlink-in-unwritable-dir-bug

Then, each script would simply be sourced from each of the tests that
currently triggers the offending behavior.  If the new *-bug script
detects the limitation, it'd exit 77 in order to skip the test that
sourced it.

Limiting the imposition to "skip this test or not" should help
avoid introducing new test failures on other systems while you
try to clean up things for cygwin.