On 2016-03-03 10:18:55 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I've got the following error in a script yesterday on a Debian 8 > machine: > > sh: 1: exec: /home/vlefevre/bin/mymaple: File exists > > where sh is dash. The command that led to this error is equivalent to: > > sh -c 'exec /home/vlefevre/bin/mymaple -q -s 2>&1' > > The "File exists" message corresponds to the EEXIST error: > > $ errno --search exists > EEXIST 17 File exists > > But what does this error mean here? Which file exists and shouldn't? [...]
Some additional information... I've looked at the history of my commands, and 5 seconds before this error, I regenerated my config on another machine, with the same home directory via NFS. In particular, this has the effect to re-create the mymaple script with: touch /home/vlefevre/bin/mymaple mv -v ... /home/vlefevre/bin/mymaple (the "touch" is a workaround to avoid a kernel bug present in Debian 8) at about the same time of the error. But this still doesn't explain the error. Perhaps a race condition in the kernel? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
