On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 05:37 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> perusing some of the content in meta/classes/utility-tasks.bbclass,
> and i see the snippet:
>
> T_task-clean = "${LOG_DIR}/cleanlogs/${PN}"
>
> which takes one all the way back to 2012:
>
> commit eef9d6c2d52f5264a6e7a9d882f8323f9793fd7f
> Author: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri Aug 17 14:19:22 2012 +0100
>
> utility-tasks: Set T to alternate location during do_clean
>
> There is a race where do_clean tries to clean WORKDIR but there are
> logfiles
> written into ${T} by bitbake and this can lead to exceptions due to open
> files.
>
> The easiest solution is to redirect T to a different location for the
> do_clean
> task, hence avoiding the errors and also allowing the logfiles to be
> visible
> somewhere. ${LOG_DIR} seems an appropriate place for this.
>
> does that race condition still exist?
Yes.
Cheers,
Richard
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