Message134902
R. David Murray <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> The failing test is launching a subprocess to compile python code, waiting
> for the subprocess to exit, and then checking to see if the file was
> created. So the timing issue would appear to be that the file created by
> the subprocess doesn't appear to exist to the main program even after the
> subprocess has exited. Stefan, Jesus, do either of you know of anything
> about the file systems used on your buildbots that might give rise to this
> problem? Is there some sort of file system sync call we need to make to
> make sure different processes have the same view of the file system?
The FreeBSD bot has a UFS filesystem with no soft updates:
$ mount
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local)
If the main process waits for the subprocess to finish, I can't think of
a reason to do any kind of synchronization. |
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2011-05-01 08:39:07 | skrah | set | recipients:
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2011-05-01 08:39:07 | skrah | link | issue11873 messages |
2011-05-01 08:39:06 | skrah | create | |
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