Re: chicken 5.3.0 - improving POSIX test on Cygwin platform

[felix . winkelmann]

> Bonjour,
>
> Currently, Chicken Scheme 5.3.0 builds without problem on Windows 10 Home
> (21H2 64-bit) with a recently updated Cygwin64.
>
> The check fails during the POSIX test when testing file system permissions.
> This failure is expected, but the check process dies. The error is farther
> below.
>
> There are already conditional statements in posix-tests.scm to handle other
> Windows differences. Could some familiar with the checking system add a
> conditional to handle this expected failure more gracefully.

Hi!

Sorry for the overly late reply. I'm not too familiar with cygwin, what
should the tests report here? The cond-expand for "windows" should trigger
on cygwin, how is it handling the permission bits (as compared to "raw"
Windows systems)? Does it "fake" the normal UNIX permission bits?


felix