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Re: Bug#569020: coreutils: failure of install-C test on GNU/kFreeBSD


From: Michael Stone
Subject: Re: Bug#569020: coreutils: failure of install-C test on GNU/kFreeBSD
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:14:34 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:19:27PM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
That test should pass irrespective of inotify availability.
I've spun it for 20 mins now on linux with inotify disabled without issue:

while true; do
  (cd tests && make check TESTS=tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2 VERBOSE=yes) || break
done

Can you reproduce and perhaps get a backtrace?

FAIL: tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2 (exit: 1)
==========================================

tail: `f' has become inaccessible: No such file or directory
./tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: line 34: kill: (13733) - No such process
./tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: line 40: kill: (13733) - No such process


As far as I read the test, there will always be a race where f could be temporarily unavailable between the mv and the touch. I forget what it's supposed to be testing for, but to close that race, I think

touch g
mv g f

would be better, no?
Mike Stone





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