On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:15 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:40:55 -0400 > > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > > > > Right, I didn't mean flock() or something; I just meant test for > > existence. But, doing a loop waiting for a file to exist in a UNIX > > shell vs. Windows command.com (for example) is not simple. > > I don't see a problem: the test suite is written part in Perl and part > in Bourne shell commands in the Makefile's generated by the tests. > Both behave roughly the same on DOS/Windows as they do on Unix. > There's no command.com anywhere in sight, not in the test suite, > because the test suite cannot be run at all using the native > DOS/Windows shells.
That's good to know. Then, we can probably implement a straightforward loop test using sh (while [ ! -f somefile ]; do sleep 1; done) and assume it will work on Windows (at least as well as it works today). Too bad GNU's version of sleep, that accepts fractional seconds, is not portable :-). _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
