# from Adam Kennedy
# on Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:00:
>Indefinite retry is not a good idea, but limited retry should cover
>almost every case that is laggy without preventing legitimate failures
>from happening.
Of course not and yes, Certainly.
do {unlink($file) and last; -e $file and die $!;
warn "cannot unlink $file\n"; sleep 1; } for(1..20);
Or something like that.
David, would you like to look into whether a function/method like this
would make sense as part of the M::B::Win32 API or possibly just a bit
of the testing support code.
Feel free to write a short test in xt/ which may occasionally prove that
it works.
Thanks,
Eric
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