Re: [PATCH] t6500: don't run detached auto gc at the end of the test script

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 13, 2017, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20170413163701.33zjwrgnlfxjfwjo@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAM0VKjkuoCotm8FB5qdTQsC0SaJiwBA9dXmdLJdSs8NwLdY8fQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:03:20AM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

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> > I couldn't get the original to show a failure, though, even under heavy
> > load. So maybe widening the race is enough.
> 
> Just to be clear: it's only an occasionally appearing error message.
> There is no failure in the sense of test failure, because 'rm -rf
> $trash' erroring out during housekeeping does not fail the test suite.

Ah, OK, that makes more sense. I can detect it reliably by just checking

  ! test -d $root/trash*

in my stress-test after the test successfully completes.

-Peff

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