Re: Testsuite failures on Solaris 2.10 on SPARC

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Dave,

* Dave Hart wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:22:32PM CET:
> The Sun NFS client intentionally defers deleting files, renaming them
> to .nfsXXXX for some period of time that is not brief enough for "make
> distcheck" to succeed.

How long is that period?  Can it be changed?

As far as I understood before, NFS delays removal only for files that
still have an open fd into them.  I haven't dug though whether we hold
one in these cases, but it would explain reproducability.

> It would be lovely from my perspective if Automake-generated distcheck
> would ignore .nfs???? specifically and trust they will indeed be rm'd
> eventually.

Well, apart from those semantics being ugly, it can also eventually be a
space problem if there are many leftover files.

Thanks,
Ralf