Issue #16265 has been updated by ioquatix (Samuel Williams). For some reason, this also started breaking on Windows in this PR and I had to disable it https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7827/files I cannot see how anything in my PR would impact the test that was hanging. It seems like it might relate to the method length, so I might try reworking the PR to move the `pread`/`pwrite` functionality into a separate function completely. However, I don't see why it should matter at all. ---------------------------------------- Bug #16265: Test (spec) failure using current MSYS2 tools, related to -fstack-protector and possibly D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16265#change-103240 * Author: MSP-Greg (Greg L) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * ruby -v: ruby 2.7.0dev (2019-10-19T08:19:27Z master 1d435bd51a) [x64-mingw32] * Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- GH PR https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2573 was a work-around that forced using some non-current MSYS2 packages libraries for building. These libraries are only available on Appveyor because their images are out-of-date, a new MSYS2 install would not have them. Using current MSYS2 libraries requires adding '-fstack-protector' to LDFLAGS. I also experimented with adding 'D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' to CFLAGS. Ruby build/compiles with those flags added. test-all passes. But spec tests always lock up when running: ``` C-API Thread function rb_thread_call_without_gvl - runs a C function with the global lock unlocked - runs a C function with the global lock unlocked amd unlocks IO with the generic RUBY_UBF_IO ``` The tests are in spec/ruby/optional/capi/thread_spec.rb, as shown: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/1d435bd51aeca75f6e437bc92de2271a716a1ced/s... and the freeze occurs on line 137. I've run this once in ruby-loco, twice in my ruby fork, and several times locally. In all runs, test-all passed, and spec stopped at the test above. This uses gcc 9.2.0, and the problem would occur with anyone doing a 'fresh' install of MSYS2. Not being a c type, this is way beyond what I can fix. Happy to try patches, etc. Thanks, Greg -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/