2009/10/1 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> > > 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. >
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48009 - Peter
