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Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT
- From: Wolf Geldmacher <wolf dot geldmacher at abacus dot ch>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:15:55 +0200
- Subject: Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT
- References: <1309437783.2097.68.camel@geldmacher-pc> <20110630133703.GE9552@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E0C90B2.2060409@cornell.edu> <1309447688.12904.21.camel@geldmacher-pc>
As an aside:
I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory
hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the
time) because files were presumably still "in use". Repeating
the command several times would succeed, though.
Downgrading from cygwin1.dll/1.7.9.1 to cygwin1.dll/1.7.8.1
seems to have solved that issue as well - still have to see
the first "retry to delete".
This may or may not be related to the original report, as it also reeks
of a race condition during file/directory operations.
Cheers,
Wolf
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