Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/07/26/11:24:45
Oops. Forgot to change the title on the last message. Hopefully this
one will appear within the correct thread.
> The autoconf testsuite creates a lot of temporary directories and
> files in them below /tmp. The directories are named using two
> characters (e.g. "ac") and the PID of the current process.So a
> typical name is `ac1322' on NT/W2K. Let's work out that example.
>
> After performing the related test, the testsuite removes the
> testdirectory ("/tmp/ac1322") and moves forward to the next
> test.
>
> Now the problem suddenly shows up:
>
> The testsuite fails to remove the temporary directory when running
> under 1.3.3.
Well, I just noticed that after running the autoconf test suite under
1.3.2 -- which passes -- I have a bunch of ac* directories left in my
/tmp dir, as well. (I didn't *specifically* notice before, because I
thought those dirs were leftovers from failed automake or libtool tests,
not autoconf).
Perhaps 1.3.2 is just "lucky" -- did the mechanism for assining PIDs (as
seen by cygwin processes) change between 1.3.2 and 1.3.3; that is, are
PIDs more likely to collide now?
Or, did the return val of mkdir() change when dir-already-exists?
Of course, even if I'm right about the PID issue (and I doubt it) the
inability to remove dirs under 1.3.3 would still be a problem...
--Chuck
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