amccarth added inline comments.
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Comment at: packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/lldbtest.py:1823-1830
@@ -1822,3 +1822,10 @@
- os.rename(src, dst)
+ try:
+ os.rename(src, dst)
+ except:
+ # We've seen consistent rename failures on Windows,
perhaps because the
+ # just-created log file is being scanned by
anti-virus. Empirically, this
+ # sleep-and-retry approach allows tests to succeed
much more reliably.
+ time.sleep(0.5)
+ os.rename(src, dst)
else:
----------------
zturner wrote:
> I have a patch pending to create an `lldbsuite.support` package. I wonder if
> it would be worth sinking this "rename with retry" (and similar for
> delete-with-retry) into this library. Then you could call this as:
>
> lldbsuite.support.filesystem.rename_with_retry(src, dst, 1) # Retry up
> to 1 time
>
> I only mention this because this is now the second time we've had to do this
> (other time right below), so perhaps we might need this again in the future
> too.
>
> I don't feel too strongly, so up to you. If you think it's a good idea
> though, you'll probably need to wait until my CL goes in first so that you
> can add this method to the package (which doesn't exist yet)
I'm happy to wait. I just glad I found the root cause.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D14163
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