Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.23.237-eff51

[Pádraig Brady]

On 25/11/15 00:40, Joachim Schiele wrote:
> On 02.07.2015 09:45, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 02/07/15 03:38, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> On 02/07/15 02:55, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> few results for coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af  :
>>
>>
>>>> On OpenSUSE 13.2 x86_64, "tests/tail-2/assert" fail, log attached.
>>>
>>> Interesting. Reproduced 100% of the time here too.
>>> BTW that VM gives a different version?
>>>   $ head -n1 /etc/issue
>>>   Welcome to openSUSE 12.3 ...
>>
>> It's not 100% reproducible actually, though once it starts happening
>> it continues to, no matter how many times the file is replaced and removed.
>> What seems to be happening is that the IN_ATTRIB event is delivered
>> for the file on unlink() (the link count decreasing is an attribute change).
>> However the subsequent open() in recheck() succeeds!
>> I.E. the kernel dentry (cache) is still accessible through that name.
>> Adding a xnanosleep(.1) before the open() is enough to make the test succeed.
>>
>> We could avoid this issue by adding IN_DELETE on the parent directory,
>> though I'm loath to change this at the moment.
> 
> i've hit the same issue:
> what can i do about it?
> 
> my system specs:
> - the host is a odroid xu4 octa-core
> - uname -a
>   Linux nixos 4.2.0 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 1 00:00:01 UTC 1970
>   armv7l GNU/Linux
> 
> the complete log is at:
> - https://lastlog.de/misc/konsole.txt is the logfile
> 
> look at the bottom, you will find:
> 
> ============================================================================
> Testsuite summary for GNU coreutils 8.24
> ============================================================================

This issue should be addressed with:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.24-35-g3ba68f9

thanks,
Pádraig.