[issue8317] test_tarfile fails intermittently on Windows

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[issue8317] test_tarfile fails intermittently on Windows

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: After grabbing a clean checkout, I'm unable to reproduce this problem where I was seeing it earlier, so I suspect the problem is in fact related to one or more lingering patches that were applied to the source. Please close this ticket as invalid. -

[issue8317] test_tarfile fails intermittently on Windows

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: I've tried reproducing this on a clean system and have thusfar been unable to. I'll try to eliminate variables on the failing system and perhaps this will elicit some information about what's causing the intermittent failures with the symlink patch. ---

[issue8317] test_tarfile fails intermittently on Windows

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: > To be clear, all of my tests were without any patches applied. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyth

[issue8317] test_tarfile fails intermittently on Windows

Brian Curtin added the comment: So far I've only seen this with os.symlink from #1578269 applied, but I will try more runs on a vanilla py3k to see if I can catch it. -- components: +Windows nosy: +brian.curtin stage: -> needs patch type: -> behavior

[issue8317] test_tarfile fails intermittently on Windows

New submission from Jason R. Coombs : Using Windows 7 32-bit, and /branches/p...@79802. When I run the test_tarfile from the regrtest script, often the first run will succeed and subsequent runs will fail (though sometimes a first run will fail and rarely a subsequent run will succeed). It app