GNU bug report logs - #21460
Race condition in tests/tail-2/assert.sh

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 21459

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21460 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#21460: Race condition in tests/tail-2/assert.sh
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:09:34 -0700

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> +  else if (new_stats.st_nlink == 0) /* XXX: what about multi-linked files.  */

That comment was my thought exactly.  It appears to be a kernel bug that really 
needs to get fixed in the kernel; there just doesn't seem to be a reliable 
workaround in user space.
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