Re: svn.collab.net is now running Subversion 0.23.

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 01:05:20PM -0600, D.J. Heap wrote:
> By the way, I can reproduce this in seconds with my test program now,
> *if* I turn on Sophos AV realtime scanning. But I'm not sure it is
> really the same problem. It's possible Sophos is exaggerating a Windows
> problem, or it could just be causing a different but similar problem, so
> I'm trying to remove it from the equation.

I would like to repro it without the AV running, as the AV could be written to
scan any file when it is closed.

>
> If anyone is interested I can provide the (fairly small and ugly) test
> program. It tries to mirror what I think is basically happening in
> Subversion:
>
> Create a temp file,
> update the temp file,
> close the temp file,
> turn read-only bit on for the temp file,
> turn off the read-only bit of the *real* file,
> rename the temp file onto the *real* file.
>
> Does this sequence look correct to the svn developers out there?
>
> Of course, it doesn't recreate the problem yet without AV scanning
> going.

:(
>
> DJ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D.J. Heap [mailto:djheap@dhiprovo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 12:42 PM
> To: 'Kevin Pilch-Bisson'
> Cc: 'Philip Martin'; dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: svn.collab.net is now running Subversion 0.23.
>
>
> I haven't tried repro-ing with one stress.pl yet -- I have had three or
> four going when it happens...I've been trying (and so far wasting quite
> a bit of time) to reproduce it in a test program. I'll start up a
> single stress now and let it go.
>
> I haven't been tracking the stress.pl failures really closely, since I
> was hoping to get a test program going, but I will start doing that
> since I'm losing hope on the test program, at least until I understand
> better the sequence of operations.
>
> DJ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Pilch-Bisson [mailto:kevin@pilch-bisson.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 5:20 AM
> To: D.J. Heap
> Cc: 'Philip Martin'; dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: svn.collab.net is now running Subversion 0.23.
>
>
> I'd like to try to help track this down if I can, so I'd really
> appreciate
> some info on the circumstances under which it is happening.
>
> 1) Does this repro with only one instance of stress.pl (as phillip
> suggested
> trying).
> 2) This is happening on commit only also on updates?
> 3) Does it only affect entries files?
> 4) I thought I saw Brane say that the destination didn't exist. Why
> didn't
> it, if it is just updating an entries file?
>
> Can anyone give me some clearer details here?
>
>
>
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