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Subject: Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT
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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

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