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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