RE: test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related)

["Karl M" <karlm30 at hotmail dot com>]

Hi All...

Cut and paste error...I wanted to say execute

while :; do rm foo; ln -s $$ foo; done

in the first one. The line I used was part of furhter debugging work.

> From: "Karl M"
> Subject: test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related)
> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:37:30 -0800
>
> Hi All...
>
> While doing some testing with keychain and the snapshots while getting 
> ready to release a keychain service package (still working on it)...I 
> noticed the following
>
> Sometimes doing a [ -f foo ]; will show a false true while the symlink is 
> being created. You can see this by opening two bash shells and executing
>
> while :; do echo $$> foo.lnk; rm foo.lnk; done
>
> in the first one and
>
> while :; do if [ -f foo ]; then echo here; else echo "        there"; fi; 
> done
>
> in the second one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ...Karl



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