Comment 4 for bug 492561

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Vincent Ladeuil (vila) wrote : Re: [Bug 492561] Re: Seftest fails to start on Windows

>>>>> "martin" == Martin Pool <email address hidden> writes:

    >> I assume the issue is that Windows is always returning a value even
    martin> though we expect it not to? (100 is the correct column width in my
    martin> case.)

    martin> This is a bug in the test. Vincent assumes that replacing stdout is
    martin> enough to isolate the test from the real terminal but on win32 the api
    martin> isn't called with a file handle.

Yes, the test is bogus and I've tried to submit a fix for that
only to fail twice at making another test pass on pqm.

I'm working on it.