Re: tar extract errors occurring rarely but with same symptoms

[Daniel Villeneuve]

On 6/6/21 1:39 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 6/5/21 10:23 PM, Daniel Villeneuve wrote:
>
> > openat(AT_FDCWD, "XXXXXX_config/static/users", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 000) = 4
> > fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|000, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> > close(4)                                = 0
>
> OK, so at this point the newly-created file XXXXXX_config/static/users must 
> exist as a regular file.
>
> > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "XXXXXX_config/static/users", 0x7ffc9b136f50, 
> > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> And yet here, the same file does not exist.
Yes, this is a contradiction.

And I've just found the problem by crosschecking with another part (watchdog) 
of the process, which wrongly tries to delete this package (erroneously finding 
it irrelevant).

Sorry for this false error report.
Thanks a lot for your support and clear analysis.
Regards,
--
Daniel Villeneuve