python3 3.9.18-1 hanging

[Andrew Murray]

Hi,

Over in Pillow’s GitHub Actions, the Cygwin job has started hanging when running pytest - https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/actions/runs/7690866578/job/20955296663

Interestingly, this is not something specific to Pillow. Cygwin has also been hanging for NumPy’s GitHub Actions, https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/25708, and GitPython, https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/pull/1814.

The conclusion that these Python developers have come to is that the problem started when Cygwin’s python3 package updated to 3.9.18-1. For the moment, they have downgraded to 3.9.16-1.

However, I’m letting you know here about the problem, in case you would like to find a more permanent solution.

Thanks