On 14/12/10 09:55, Jim Meyering wrote: > Paul Eggert wrote: >> +# Give compression subprocesses time to react when 'sort' exits. >> +# Otherwise, under NFS, when 'sort' unlinks the temp files and they >> +# are renamed to .nfsXXXX instead of being removed, the parent cleanup >> +# of this directory will fail because the files are still open. >> +sleep 1 > > It'd be a shame to make everyone sleep even one second for NFS. > And on a heavily loaded system, 1 second might not be enough. > Can you formulate that as a loop that sleeps say 0.1 seconds > at a time for up to 5 seconds and that checks whether it's > safe to exit?
is_local_dir_ is available. The more general sleep loop could be implemented with retry_delay_ I think? If the subprocesses were reparented to the shell, then one could just `wait`. cheers, Pádraig.
