Create file on remote node, immediate test-r fails intermittently

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jun 15 06:35:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:50:22PM +0100, Richard_Senior@meridian-vat.com wrote:
> 
> On 15-Jun-2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:57:48PM +0100, Richard_Senior@meridian-vat.com
> wrote:
> >
> > > However, in the last couple of days a colleague of mine has run into an
> > > issue with a shell script that automates conversion of scanned
> documents
> > > from TIF to GIF. Sometimes (< 10%) the script does not see the GIF file
> it
> > > has just created.
> >
> > > We have simulated the structure of the script in this test case:
> >
> > I ran your included test case for several hours on two different
> > machines without error.
> 
> I've just re-installed the entire 1.3.2 Cygwin release from
> programming.ccp14.ac.uk on a single-processor box with 192MB memory and NT
> 4.00.1381. I tried the script on a Linux box last night and it was OK but
> the errors come freely with all installations of Cygwin at this site.
> Output from one run of the test case is as follows:
> [...]
> Could you tell me more about the machines on which you have run this script
> successfully? What version of Cygwin, what operating system, etc.
> 

I couldn't reproduce it either, using W2K, 384MB, NTFS, CYGWIN=ntsec.

BTW, I saw in your cygcheck output that your CYGWIN variable is
set to a path. That's wrong. The CYGWIN environment variable should
contain Cygwin specific settings. Look into the online user docs
at http://cygwin.com/docs.html .

Corinna

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