[PATCH] fhandler_pipe: add sanity limit to handle loops

[Jeremy Drake]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2021, Ken Brown wrote:

> So can you test your diagnosis by removing your patch and adding an assertion?

I will attempt to do this.  Do I need any special configure args or
anything for assertions to be enabled?

> > Also, it seems to have started cropping up in msys2's CI when the GHA
> > runner was switched from "windows-2019" to "windows-2022".
>
> And does your patch help here too?

I have not tried this.  This seemed to be pretty clearly a cygwin rather
than msys2-specific issue so I submitted the patch here first rather than
getting it integrated into msys2 so that it would then be used on their
runners.