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Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?
Am 11.12.2010 00:14, schrieb Warren Young:
> 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.
Thanks. Note that the official maintenance remains with Jason, I've been toying
around with cygport only (your download tool needs to follow HTTP redirects, for
curl, use -L; wget should be fine as-is):
http://home.pages.de/~mandree/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.3.19-1-src.tar.bz2
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Matthias Andree
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