Hi Dave, * Dave Hart wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:22:32PM CET: > The Sun NFS client intentionally defers deleting files, renaming them > to .nfsXXXX for some period of time that is not brief enough for "make > distcheck" to succeed.
How long is that period? Can it be changed? As far as I understood before, NFS delays removal only for files that still have an open fd into them. I haven't dug though whether we hold one in these cases, but it would explain reproducability. > It would be lovely from my perspective if Automake-generated distcheck > would ignore .nfs???? specifically and trust they will indeed be rm'd > eventually. Well, apart from those semantics being ugly, it can also eventually be a space problem if there are many leftover files. Thanks, Ralf
