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11 years ago From occitan@esperanto.org
I have added a new feature and regression test to makepp.sf.net\, and this new test is mysteriously failing with every version since 5.8.9 & 5.10.1 (some 32bit\, some 64\, some ActiveState\, some self compiled)\, but not with 5.10.0 and older ones. This only happens\, but reproducibly\, when the test is running on NTFS\, be it Ubuntu's fuseblk mount of /host to the underlying Windows XP D:\, or when I create an NTFS on Linux and mount it directly.
What all tests do is\, create a subdirectory\, unpack the test into it\, chdir
there\, perform the test\, chdir back and File::Path::rmtree the subdirectory.
Now all newer perls are saying "cannot remove path when cwd is
/.../loop.tdir". Before calling rmtree\, I have checked the return value of
chdir\, logged Cwd::cwd\, even put in a sleep and checked /proc/\
What is special about this test is that it forks\, the child execs perl makepp with the new --loop option (which makes it repeatedly kill 'STOP'\, $$) and the father does waitpid $pid\, WUNTRACED; kill 'CONT'\, $pid a couple of times (how many has no effect on the problem). Finally it kills the child and waits for it (and it really is gone before the test ends).
Now I'm sorry to say\, I've tried to write some minimal scripts to reproduce this\, but they failed to. Only if the child actually runs makepp does this happen. So if anybody has the courage to\, grab today's check in as per http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=cvs&group_id=43679&source=navbar and
cd t ./run_tests.pl loop.test
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