Hi, I believe my last update fixed the problem can someone double check?
Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz
On July 7, 2023 11:26:22 AM GMT+01:00, Jose M Calhariz <j...@calhariz.com>
wrote:
>I too think it's a race condition. I made some changes to the test but the
>upload to Debian did not went well.
>
>
>On July 6, 2023 2:12:59 PM GMT+01:00, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net>
>wrote:
>>On 2023-07-05 18:58:13 +0200, Johannes Christ wrote:
>>> Is there another way to reproduce this issue?
>>
>>I'm wondering whether there is a race condition in the test:
>>
>># use at command to schedule a job.
>>echo "echo `date` > ${WORKDIR}/${TMPFILE}" | at now + 1 minute
>>
>>So the file is expected to be created 1 minute later.
>>
>>Then in the script:
>>
>>sleep 2
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>sleep 58
>>
>>if grep -Fq "UTC" $WORKDIR/$TMPFILE
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>So the script waits for 1 minute (and some other fast commands)
>>before checking the existence of the file, which is the wait time
>>given to "at".
>>
>>I can see 2 possible issues:
>>
>>1. The system is a bit slow, and the job execution will take a bit
>>more time.
>>
>>2. Time inaccuracies. What are the guaranties given by the system?
>>
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