Fix test_create_read_special_symlink (master)

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ jobs:
                 pip install -e .
 
                 # troubles with either tox or pytest xdist, so we run pytest manually:
-                pytest -v -n auto -rs --cov=borg --cov-config=pyproject.toml --cov-report=xml --junitxml=test-results.xml --benchmark-skip -k "not remote and not socket"
+                pytest -v -rs --cov=borg --cov-config=pyproject.toml --cov-report=xml --junitxml=test-results.xml --benchmark-skip -k "not remote and not socket and test_create_read_special"
                 ;;
             esac
 
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ jobs:
           export PATH="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dist/binary/borg-dir:$PATH"
           borg.exe -V
           . env/bin/activate
-          python -m pytest -n4 --benchmark-skip -vv -rs -k "not remote" --cov=borg --cov-config=pyproject.toml --cov-report=xml --junitxml=test-results.xml
+          python -m pytest --benchmark-skip -vv -rs -k "not remote and test_create_read_special" --cov=borg --cov-config=pyproject.toml --cov-report=xml --junitxml=test-results.xml
 
       - name: Upload test results to Codecov
         if: ${{ !cancelled() }}

pyproject.toml

@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ env_list = ["py{310,311,312,313,314}-{none,llfuse,pyfuse3,mfusepy}", "docs", "ru
 [tool.tox.env_run_base]
 package = "editable-legacy"  # without this it does not find setup_docs when running under fakeroot
 deps = ["-rrequirements.d/development.lock.txt"]
-commands = [["python", "-m", "pytest", "-v", "-n", "{env:XDISTN:auto}", "-rs", "--cov=borg", "--cov-config=pyproject.toml", "--cov-report=xml", "--junitxml=test-results.xml", "--benchmark-skip", "--pyargs", "{posargs:borg.testsuite}"]]
+commands = [["python", "-m", "pytest", "-v", "-k", "test_create_read_special", "-rs", "--cov=borg", "--cov-config=pyproject.toml", "--cov-report=xml", "--junitxml=test-results.xml", "--benchmark-skip", "--pyargs", "{posargs:borg.testsuite}"]]
 pass_env = ["*"]  # fakeroot -u needs some env vars
 
 [tool.tox.env_pkg_base]

src/borg/testsuite/archiver/create_cmd_test.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from ...constants import *  # NOQA
 from ...constants import zeros
 from ...manifest import Manifest
-from ...platform import is_win32
+from ...platform import is_win32, is_cygwin
 from ...platformflags import is_msystem
 from ...repository import Repository
 from ...helpers import CommandError, BackupPermissionError
@@ -923,8 +923,7 @@ def test_create_topical(archivers, request):
     assert "file1" in output
 
 
-# @pytest.mark.skipif(not are_fifos_supported() or is_cygwin, reason="FIFOs not supported, hangs on cygwin")
-@pytest.mark.skip(reason="This test is problematic and should be skipped")
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not are_fifos_supported() or is_cygwin, reason="FIFOs not supported, hangs on cygwin")
 def test_create_read_special_symlink(archivers, request):
     archiver = request.getfixturevalue(archivers)
     from threading import Thread