Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-05 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 08:21 -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 05/07/2011 8:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 4 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > >>> As an aside: > >>> I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > >>> hierarch

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-05 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 14:10 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > > As an aside: > > > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > > > hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% o

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-05 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 05/07/2011 8:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the time)

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 16:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 08:21, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > However, I was wrong about not seeing the problem since. Choosing a > > random source dir to blow away: > > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > > >rm: cannot remove `Python-2.6.6/Lib/lib2to3/tests': Directory not empty > > >$

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > As an aside: > > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > > hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > > time) because files were presumably still "in use".

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Geisert
> Any idea of how to debug this? We need some instantaneous version of > lsof or something... Not what you asked for, but useful for debugging stuff like this: FileMon and ProcessMonitor from Sysinternals.com (now a MS site). Just in case you haven't run across them before... ..mark -- Proble

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 16:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 08:21, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > However, I was wrong about not seeing the problem since. Choosing a > > random source dir to blow away: > > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > > >rm: cannot remove `Python-2.6.6/Lib/lib2to3/tests': Directory not empty > > >$

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/07/2011 8:21 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/07/2011 7:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 08:21, Ryan Johnson wrote: > However, I was wrong about not seeing the problem since. Choosing a > random source dir to blow away: > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > >rm: cannot remove `Python-2.6.6/Lib/lib2to3/tests': Directory not empty > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > >$ > > This seems to happen mo

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/07/2011 7:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less r

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 13:33 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > >>As an aside: > > >> I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > > >> hierarch

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:46 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > As an aside: > > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > > hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > > time) because files were presumab

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 13:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > I have also seen the rm -rf problem occasionally on my w7-64 > > machine, and I don't think anything from BLODA is installed. > > Also with 1.7.8? Given the minor number of FS-related changes, it's > so very unlik

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > >>As an aside: > >>I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > >>hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > >>time)

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the time) because files were presumably still "in us

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > As an aside: > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > time) because files were presumably still "in use". Repeating > the command several times

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the time) because files were presumably still "in use". Repeating the command several times would succeed, though. Downgradin