On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 02:11:31AM +0200, Branko ??ibej wrote:
> 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.
>
The patch that I've seen retries 100 times, and then gives up.
--ben
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