Re: Coreutils 5.2.1: race in testsuite

[Andreas Schwab]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Thank you for the patch.
> What was the symptom of the failure?

Tail reports an error opening foo.

+ cat err
==> a <==

==> foo <==
tail: foo: No such file or directory

> Can you reproduce the problem easily?

No.  Actually the race might even be somewhere else, namely with the
command "mv f foo" the window between unlinking foo and renaming f to foo.

> Even if I delay the start of the tail command by two seconds,
> it doesn't make the test fail.

Andreas.

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