MSYS, Windows

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Mostly off-topic, but may be of some interest...

I recently noticed while running the test suite on Windows with MSYS that the 
server processes were not getting killed cleanly, they were just being 
terminated abruptly. This tended to do weird things for subsequent tests, 
showing complaints about not being able to delete the testrun directory for a 
prior test because it wasn't empty. I found that one way to work around this 
problem was to invoke Cygwin's "sync" command after each test. (Added into 
tests/scripts/all.) In some cases it would cause a test to fail that would 
otherwise succeed when run on its own.

But the actual problem is that the MSYS DLL doesn't propagate signals to 
non-MSYS apps. And it turns out, I had actually noticed this back in 2003 and 
subsequently forgotten.
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys&article=3793

Anyway, I've written a patch for the MSYS DLL which you can find here
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1624635&group_id=2435&atid=302435

and I have a binary you can download here
http://highlandsun.com/hyc/msys-1.0.dll.gz
cksum: 2315022199 326195 msys-1.0.dll.gz

It's based off a recent pull from their CVS, so roughly version 1.0.11. It 
also includes both of these patches
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1174106&group_id=2435&atid=630979

If you're doing a lot of work with OpenLDAP in a Windows environment this 
will definitely make life more tolerable.

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