test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related)

[Karl M]

Hi All...

While doing some testing with keychain and the snapshots while getting ready 
to release a keychain service package (still working on it)...I noticed the 
following

Sometimes doing a [ -f foo ]; will show a false true while the symlink is 
being created. You can see this by opening two bash shells and executing

while :; do echo $$> foo.lnk; rm foo.lnk; done

in the first one and

while :; do if [ -f foo ]; then echo here; else echo "        there"; fi; 
done

in the second one.

Thanks,

...Karl



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