Re: Fix test failure where rm would appear to succeed incorrectly.

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> I have been seeing the rm fail-eperm test sporadically fail.  It turns
> out that there is a race.  The test is opportunistically looking for
> files that it can't remove so as to provide a test for that part of
> rm's functionality.  But between the time it finds a candidate file
> and the time it tries to test rm on the file that file may have
> already been removed external to the test script.  The code didn't
> expect that and therefore threw an error message.  This suggested
> patch fixes the problem by detecting that case and ignoring it.
>
> Please fetch this patch.
>
>   git fetch --no-tags git://git.proulx.com/idutils 
> rm-fail-eperm-fix:rm-fail-eperm-fix
>
> 2008-02-25  Bob Proulx  <address@hidden>
>
>       Fix test failure where rm would appear to succeed incorrectly.
>       * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Ignore files that were opportunistically chosen
>       to test permission failures but disappear before we can finish the test.

Thanks for tracking that down and fixing it.
I applied your patch.  (though, fyi, the fetch failed)