X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 14:11:48 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT Message-ID: <20110705121148.GJ1457@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1309437783.2097.68.camel@geldmacher-pc> <20110630133703.GE9552@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E0C90B2.2060409@cornell.edu> <1309447688.12904.21.camel@geldmacher-pc> <1309770955.22699.15.camel@geldmacher-pc> <20110704104656.GA20822@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E119C61.7070505@cs.utoronto.ca> <20110704113319.GC20822@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E11B063.7000808@cs.utoronto.ca> <20110704142057.GA1457@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110704142057.GA1457@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Jul 4 16:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 08:21, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > However, I was wrong about not seeing the problem since. Choosing a > > random source dir to blow away: > > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > > >rm: cannot remove `Python-2.6.6/Lib/lib2to3/tests': Directory not empty > > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > > >$ > > > > This seems to happen more than half the time (different non-empty > > dir every time). Naturally, running under strace makes the problem > > go away (it doesn't help that strace kills stderr, where any error > > messages might have gone). > > > > Running the following command 10x: > > > > $ tar -xaf Python-2.6.6.tar.bz2 && sleep 3 && (rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > > || (echo 'Retrying...' && rm -rf Python-2.6.6)) > > > > I get six times with no error, two times with one error, one time > > each with two and three errors. > > I tried this(*) with Cygwin 1.7.9 as well as with the latest from CVS > on 2K8R2 and it just works. In a VM. > > > I'm currently updating and rebuilding my cygwin sources to try out > > your patch... > > Thanks. I'm just installing W7 64 on real hardware and I'll try again > as soon as the boring install-windows/update-windows/configure-windows/ > install-cygwin/configure-cygwin process is finished. Nope, I still can't reproduce the rm problem. Works still fine for me, on real W7 64 hardware. 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