Re: [PATCH v2] test-lib: don't use ulimit in test prerequisites on cygwin

2017-09-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ramsay Jones wrote: > On cygwin (and MinGW), the 'ulimit' built-in bash command does not have > the desired effect of limiting the resources of new processes, at least > for the stack and file descriptors. However, it always returns success > and leads to several test prerequisites being erroneous

[PATCH v2] test-lib: don't use ulimit in test prerequisites on cygwin

2017-09-14 Thread Ramsay Jones
On cygwin (and MinGW), the 'ulimit' built-in bash command does not have the desired effect of limiting the resources of new processes, at least for the stack and file descriptors. However, it always returns success and leads to several test prerequisites being erroneously set to true. Add a check