Peter Crowther wrote: > I know it's bad form to reply to my original mail - sorry! > > 2009/9/30 Peter Crowther <peter.crowt...@melandra.com>: >> I wonder whether this is a race condition with some text editors. For >> example, if vi operated in the following way: >> 1) Rename context.xml to context.xml~ >> 2) Create context.xml, write contents, close file >> ... then a poll of the state of context.xml between 1 and 2 would show >> context.xml as missing. > > A swift perusal of the vim/gvim sources indicates that at least those > two editors operate in exactly this way. There's a small period when > the file would appear not to be present if polled.
That could explain what Igor saw although the odds of it happening must be pretty small. Could you raise a bug for this in Bugzilla? For the fix I'm thinking along the lines of waiting 500ms if the file appears to be deleted to check that it doesn't re-appear before continuing. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org