X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_YG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D02B46E.6070306@etr-usa.com> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:14:54 -0700 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition? References: <4D026815 DOT 4070606 AT gmx DOT de> <20101210182652 DOT GA27615 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4D027DDE DOT 1000905 AT gmx DOT de> <4D029937 DOT 5080007 AT etr-usa DOT com> <4D029F7D DOT 5070106 AT gmx DOT de> In-Reply-To: <4D029F7D.5070106@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 12/10/2010 2:45 PM, Matthias Andree wrote: > Certainly I don't get back to a stock Windows configuration, and that's hardly > what a typical Cygwin installation would look like anyways; Of course not, but it's reasonable to start from a common baseline when debugging problems. If doing so makes the problem go away, it means the problem is in some other third-party software, and so is not something Cygwin can reasonably be expected to fix. If you are able to point blame at a specific piece of third-party software, let us know so it can be added to the BLODA list: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda I don't see your specific version of Sophos there. Maybe they fixed their problems since v7. It could instead mean no one has bothered to post a credible smoking gun showing the same problems in a later version. I know if I had problems with Cygwin after installing a later version of Sophos, I'd just assume it's still broken rather than debug and re-report it. > software that's failing is rm.exe in certain circumstances when running "cygport > fetchmail-6.3.19-1 all", so it's not exactly rocket science I've been trying :) Point me to your source package, and I'll download it and try building it in a loop here. I tried downloading the current .18 source release with setup.exe, but it's not a cygport source package, so I don't think testing with it would be a useful approximation of your test condition. There's no point testing a different cygport package, because I've already done that dozens or hundreds of times before. It hasn't failed for me in the way you report. -- 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