Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> added the comment: R. David Murray <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > The failing test is launching a subprocess to compile python code, waiting > for the subprocess to exit, and then checking to see if the file was > created. So the timing issue would appear to be that the file created by > the subprocess doesn't appear to exist to the main program even after the > subprocess has exited. Stefan, Jesus, do either of you know of anything > about the file systems used on your buildbots that might give rise to this > problem? Is there some sort of file system sync call we need to make to > make sure different processes have the same view of the file system?
The FreeBSD bot has a UFS filesystem with no soft updates: $ mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) If the main process waits for the subprocess to finish, I can't think of a reason to do any kind of synchronization. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11873> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
