On 2023-07-05 18:58:13 +0200, Johannes Christ wrote:
> Is there another way to reproduce this issue?
I'm wondering whether there is a race condition in the test:
# use at command to schedule a job.
echo "echo `date` > ${WORKDIR}/${TMPFILE}" | at now + 1 minute
So the file is expected to be created 1 minute later.
Then in the script:
sleep 2
[...]
sleep 58
if grep -Fq "UTC" $WORKDIR/$TMPFILE
[...]
So the script waits for 1 minute (and some other fast commands)
before checking the existence of the file, which is the wait time
given to "at".
I can see 2 possible issues:
1. The system is a bit slow, and the job execution will take a bit
more time.
2. Time inaccuracies. What are the guaranties given by the system?
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