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Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:05:44 -0700
From:	Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?
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On 12/14/2010 12:48 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> This loop
> has been running for about three hours (~40 iterations):

Nearly 400 iterations now.  I'm killing it.  Either the test is no good, 
or rm doesn't fail here.

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