bug#21804: 25.0.50; file-notify-tests failure on Cygwin

[Ken Brown]

Hi Michael,

On 11/4/2015 1:44 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:
> > Running 12 tests (2015-11-04 11:51:58-0500)
> > Local library: `gfilenotify'
> >     passed   1/12  file-notify-test00-availability
> > Remote command: `gvfs-monitor-dir'
> >     passed   2/12  file-notify-test00-availability-remote
> >     passed   3/12  file-notify-test01-add-watch
> >     passed   4/12  file-notify-test01-add-watch-remote
> > file-notify--test-event-handler (6443046528 stopped 
> > "/tmp/file-notify-test552448U")
> > Test file-notify-test02-events backtrace:
>
> It is obvious, that `file-notify--test-with-events' isn't kosher. No
> event arrived inside this macro. The stopped event arrived later, in one
> of the unwindforms of the surrounding unwind-protect.
>
> Are there special problems with cygwin Emacs related to the
> `with-timeout' macro?

Not that I know of.  There are other tests that use it, and those aren't 
failing.

> Hard to debug, because we are faced with timing issues. So I would need
> to do this myself ...
>
> Well, I'll try to find a machine where I could install cygwin. Where
> could I find a very recent Emacs, including the patch of gfilenotify.c
> I've committed yesterday?

I've just built one and put it on my private Cygwin repository at

  http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/index.html

There are instructions at that site.  Let me know if anything is 
unclear.  Thanks for your help with this.

Ken