X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:02:06 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition? Message-ID: <20101217110206.GA1512@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4D029937.5080007@etr-usa.com> <4D029F7D.5070106@gmx.de> <4D02B46E.6070306@etr-usa.com> <4D036518.7010409@gmx.de> <4D072148.1080400@etr-usa.com> <4D0884E8.50708@etr-usa.com> <4D08B9D7.3040506@gmx.de> <4D098540.8070401@gmx.de> <4D098DA0.3080200@gmx.de> <4D0A57D3.7070900@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D0A57D3.7070900@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Dec 16 11:17, Warren Young wrote: > On 12/15/2010 8:55 PM, Matthias Andree wrote: > >same story with 1.7.8s. Builds successfully 4 times, then fails. > > I upgraded my DLL to yesterday's snapshot and ran the build through > a further 80 iterations. No failures. > > I still believe you have a local issue. > > Incidentally, if you're reading this, Corinna: the iterations are > about 2.5x faster with this DLL. What'd you do? :) Nothing fancy. We chanted the code and sacrificed a few kittens to the big C++, that's all. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple