Re: coreutils 5.95 on IRIX 5.3

[Paul Eggert]

Georg Schwarz <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's the full make check output from 5.97. There still seem to be
> problems.
> ...
> rm: cannot remove directory `no-target-dir.tmp/26138': File exists
> FAIL: no-target-dir

What happens if you do something like this?  It should generate more
debugging output.

cd tests/mv
VERBOSE=yes make TESTS=no-target-dir

> lorenz 57% /sbin/rm -rf ./tests/mv/no-target-dir.tmp
> Cannot remove directory ./tests/mv/no-target-dir.tmp/26138: File exists
> Cannot remove directory ./tests/mv/no-target-dir.tmp: File exists
> lorenz 58% ls -lad ./tests/mv/no-target-dir.tmp/26138
> drwxr-xr-x    3 schwarz  user         512 Jul  2 13:28 
> ./tests/mv/no-target-dir.tmp/26138
> lorenz 59% ls -la ./tests/mv/no-target-dir.tmp/26138
> total 2
> drwxr-xr-x    3 schwarz  user         512 Jul  2 13:28 .
> drwxr-xr-x    3 schwarz  user         512 Jul  2 13:28 ..
> lorenz 60%
>
> do you have an idea what is going wrong here???

Possibly you have a process whose working directory is
tests/mv/no-target-dir.tmp/26138.  That would explain both the
original failure, and the failure of your attempt to clean up
manually.

The no-target-dir script does a "cd tests/mv/no-target-dir.tmp/26138".
I wouldn't expect to see the behavior you're observing, though, since
that script should exit right away.  Perhaps it is generating a
subprocess that isn't exiting, on your host?  Anyway, the VERBOSE=yes
business might tell you what is going wrong.