[issue31885] Cygwin: socket test suites hang indefinitely due to bug in Cygwin

Erik Bray added the comment: That person was me--I have the keys to a cygwin buildbot, but it's currently not running. I lost the urgency to make cygwin fully supported, though it's come a long way. In particular the deprecation of distutils should help nix some of the long-standing

[issue31885] Cygwin: socket test suites hang indefinitely due to bug in Cygwin

Irit Katriel added the comment: Thanks. Do you know whether anyone is looking at Cygwin support for cpython at the moment? Is there interest in that? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue31885] Cygwin: socket test suites hang indefinitely due to bug in Cygwin

Erik Bray added the comment: Thanks for asking. Indeed the fix to that issue was included in https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=5ca28a0cd71436a84797d5d66831790004e0 and as Cygwin obsoletes old releases rather quickly I see no reason to keep this issue open.

[issue31885] Cygwin: socket test suites hang indefinitely due to bug in Cygwin

Irit Katriel added the comment: Erik, is this still relevant, given the Cygwin bug was fixed 4 years ago? -- nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker ___

[issue31885] Cygwin: socket test suites hang indefinitely due to bug in Cygwin

Change by Erik Bray : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +4119 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue31885] Cygwin: socket test suites hang indefinitely due to bug in Cygwin

New submission from Erik Bray : Like issue31882, this is to mention an upstream bug in Cygwin that causes one of the tests in the test_socket test suite to hang indefinitely. That bug is fixed upstream [1], but for now it would still be better to skip the test on