Re: svn_io_file_rename error during add

mark benedetto king wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:08:34PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>
>>This looks like same win32 filesystem bug that keeps coming up over
>>and over. Nobody can reproduce it reliably (to show it to Microsoft)
>>and yet it keeps happening every now and then. Our best guess is that
>>APR file i/o is somehow stimulating an obscure race-condition bug in
>>the win32 filesystem.
>>
>>I don't see an issue about it... maybe we should open one, just to
>>track the mystery?
>>
>>
>>
>
>We could (shudder) give in and add the retry-loop patch that has been
>floating around. I don't think Microsoft is likely to fix the problem
>any time soon.
>
>
Somebow I suspect that's a very bad idea. The reason being, we can't be
sure that the error is really bogus. What if the permission problem is
real? BAM! Instant infinite loop.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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