[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > I have been seeing the rm fail-eperm test sporadically fail. It turns > out that there is a race. The test is opportunistically looking for > files that it can't remove so as to provide a test for that part of > rm's functionality. But between the time it finds a candidate file > and the time it tries to test rm on the file that file may have > already been removed external to the test script. The code didn't > expect that and therefore threw an error message. This suggested > patch fixes the problem by detecting that case and ignoring it. > > Please fetch this patch. > > git fetch --no-tags git://git.proulx.com/idutils > rm-fail-eperm-fix:rm-fail-eperm-fix > > 2008-02-25 Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fix test failure where rm would appear to succeed incorrectly. > * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Ignore files that were opportunistically chosen > to test permission failures but disappear before we can finish the test.
Thanks for tracking that down and fixing it. I applied your patch. (though, fyi, the fetch failed) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
