On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 05:10:46PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote:

On 19/01/2026 6:50 am, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

quoted

On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 08:39:56PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote:

quoted

In order to fix this flaky test on cygwin, despite not knowing why it
works, replace the shell redirection with the above 'test-tool truncate'
invocation.

Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref]

Oh, so is this the exact case that we were talking about? If so, it
might make sense to link to the mail thread so that folks can also read
a bit into our discussion around this.

Indeed! I thought about referencing the email thread, but I decided that it
didn't really offer any more supporting evidence than the commit message
(in fact less - it doesn't mention the 'strace' scan).

I can add that (again [1]), if you think it's worth it, but I just re-read
the email thread and I'm not convinced it offers much extra value. So, I would
rather not re-roll, but I will if you think it worth it. Let me know.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/f22c95ad-43c8-41de-8315-e707224e830b@ramsayjones.plus.com/ (local)

Fair enough, let's just keep it as-is. Thanks!

Patrick