Hi, On 2023-05-16 08:55:20 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > I don't know where this all leaves us. It's still more than odd that the > start works fine and the stop doesn't.
>From what I understand it's just a question of starting another shell, with some redirection, after having previously started a shell, which left a program running (thus still referencing the same console device). > This piece of code has worked happily for years. It's only a recent > installation or update of msys2 that's made the problem appear. Yea, it does look like a bug somewhere. I just don't know how to make it a small enough reproducer right now. > I have implemented a workaround where IPC::Run is available - that means a > little extra one-off work for people using msys2, but it's not a huge > burden. Beyond that I don't really want to spend a lot more energy on it. > I suppose the alternative would be to change the way the buildfarm calls > pg_ctl stop. Do you have a concrete suggestion for that? The easiest fix is to redirect stdin to /dev/null (or some file, if that's easier to do portably) - that should fix the problem entirely, without needing IPC::Run. Greetings, Andres Freund
