Tom Lane wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Shown below is an extract from the traces of make installcheck in
>>contrib. It is decorated with some extra traces I built into
>>src/port/dirmod.c::rmtree(). It shows quite reproducible failure of
>>rmtree(), mostly at the rmdir calls, but even more worryingly there are
>>consistent unlink failures also.
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>I kinda suspect that what you are looking at is a problem with the
>delayed-unlinking feature that we built to cope with Windows' inability
>to unlink open files, ie, it's being a little too slow to do the
>unlinks. Would you refresh my memory about exactly where and when the
>unlink happens if the initial try fails?
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Same file, although Bruce says that looping code is now redundant, as we
open files in a way that allows unlinking even if they are open.
cheers
andrew
