Re: 'CVS-Unknown' buildfarm failures?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net]
> Sent: 02 June 2006 12:18
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] 'CVS-Unknown' buildfarm failures?
>
>
> That's why I said "almost always" :-)

:-)

> I strongly suspect that snake is hitting the "file/directory doesn't
> disappear immediately when you unlink/rmdir" problem on
> Windows that we have
> had to code around inside Postgres. It looks like cvs is
> trying to prune an
> empty directory but isn't fast enough.

Sounds feasible.

> I assume that snake just uses the Msys DTK's cvs?

Yes.

> If so, I
> think we'll just
> have to live with this - it's not very frequent - snake's
> last occurrence on
> HEAD was 62 days ago.

Strange though, as I'd expect to see more of the problem on HEAD than
the stable branches.

Regards, Dave.