Re: Testsuite failures on Solaris 2.10 on SPARC

[Dave Hart]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 21:28 UTC, Ralf Wildenhues
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> * Dave Hart wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:22:32PM CET:
>> The Sun NFS client intentionally defers deleting files, renaming them
>> to .nfsXXXX for some period of time that is not brief enough for "make
>> distcheck" to succeed.
>
> How long is that period?  Can it be changed?
>
> As far as I understood before, NFS delays removal only for files that
> still have an open fd into them.  I haven't dug though whether we hold
> one in these cases, but it would explain reproducability.

https://www.cs.indiana.edu/Facilities/FAQ/General/dotnfs.html

Was my lucky hit for ".nfs delete rename" and agrees with your
understanding, please forgive my fuzzy memory.  So presumably
something is holding the files open.  In the case of my "make
distcheck" issue, it's the post-distclean check that fails:

ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean:

is followed by 100 or so .nfs%4.4x files, mostly in the top directory.
 libntp, ntpd, and ntpq SUBDIRS each had two this run.  The sntp
subproject (with its own configure.ac) had 7 .nfs hangers-on.  I have
a complete log on request.

Cheers,
Dave Hart