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Re: coreutils-8.13.29-43a9 on Linux/PowerPC
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Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
Re: coreutils-8.13.29-43a9 on Linux/PowerPC |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Oct 2011 20:45:30 +0200 |
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Hi Jim,
> Does this fix it?
>
> +cleanup()
> +{
> + local delay="$1"
> + rm -rf missing ||
> + { sleep $delay; return 1; }
> +}
> +
> +# Try repeatedly to remove the temporary directory.
> +# This is normally unnecessary, because the containing directory will
> +# be removed by code from init.sh. However, when this particular test
> +# is run on an NFS-mounted volume, sometimes init.sh's cleanup code
> +# fails because the directory is not yet really empty, perhaps because
> +# the tail process (reading missing/file) is not yet killed.
> +retry_delay_ cleanup .1 6
Yes, this reduces the failure probability to 0%.
Bruno
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