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

[Karl M]

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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