Re: [PATCH] t6500: don't run detached auto gc at the end of the test script

["SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:50 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 02:27:05AM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>
>> >> I wonder if you could make it a general test-lib function, like:
>> >>
>> >>   run_and_wait () {
>> >>         # we read stdout from the child only for the side effect
>> >>         # of waiting until all child sub-processes exit, closing their
>> >>         # fd 9.
>> >>         does_not_matter=$("$@" 9>&1)
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm afraid this won't work on Windows when the invoked command is git. FD
>> > inheritance between MSYS (bash) and non-MSYS programs (git) is only
>> > implemented for FDs 0,1,2. That's a deficiency of MSYS, and I don't think
>> > that was improved in MSYS2.
>>
>> Oh, that's a pity, I was almost ready with v2...
>>
>> Unfortunately, this makes the general helper function unworkable, of
>> course.  Though in this particular case it wouldn't matter, because on
>> Windows daemonize() is basically a noop and 'git gc --auto' remains in
>> the foreground anyway.
>
> That makes it tempting to use in this scenario as a one-off with a
> comment.

Ok, I'll send it out in a minute, and Junio can then take his pick.

>> I think we should stick with my initial patch, then.
>
> I'm not entirely opposed, but my understanding was that it didn't
> actually fix the race, it just made it a bit bigger. Which is sort of
> unsatisfying.
>
> I couldn't get the original to show a failure, though, even under heavy
> load. So maybe widening the race is enough.

Just to be clear: it's only an occasionally appearing error message.
There is no failure in the sense of test failure, because 'rm -rf
$trash' erroring out during housekeeping does not fail the test suite.