On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 11:05:44AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > And really, we've spent more time on this thread than it would take > Lennart to fix PA. Just a quick stat and check of uid before trying to > remove the stale files and this would all go away. Sure, your stat and > remove could race, but this is nothing more than a garbage collection > process anyway, so who cares? We'll just get it next time.
"Stat and then open" is inherently open to race conditions. In this specific case it probably doesn't realistically matter, but it's not behaviour that should be encouraged. The only way to know for certain whether you're going to be able to open or unlink a file is to attempt to open or unlink that file, and we shouldn't encourage people to think otherwise. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
