The newest Cygwin release (3.5.5) has three major regressions: - bash hangs [1] - access() behaviour changed [2] - raise() produces random behaviour [3]
The first one has the potential to hang the CI for 6 hours; the second and third one causes unit test failures in the CIs of gnulib, gettext, and m4. Since the GitHub CI picks up the newest Cygwin release automatically and I don't want to spend hours again, hunting down Cygwin regressions in basic POSIX functionality, I am disabling the Cygwin (64-bit) CI for these packages. I keep the Cygwin (32-bit) CI, since that is running a fixed release (3.3.6) — no risk of regressions caused by Cygwin. Bruno [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2024-December/256971.html [2] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2024-December/256972.html [3] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2024-December/256973.html
