Hi Andrew, On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 03:56:43PM +0000, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Prevent port collisions between concurrent TAP tests > > Currently there is a race condition where if concurrent TAP tests both > test that they can open a port they will assume that it is free and use > it, causing one of them to fail. To prevent this we record a reservation > using an exclusive lock, and any TAP test that discovers a reservation > checks to see if the reserving process is still alive, and looks for > another free port if it is. > > Ports are reserved in a directory set by the environment setting > PG_TEST_PORT_DIR, or if that doesn't exist a subdirectory of the top > build directory as set by Makefile.global, or its own > tmp_check directory.
Wouldn't it be better to update .gitgnore at the root of the source folder to discard portlock/ so as we will never include by accident in a commit? Thanks, -- Michael
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