On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:27:10 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Tim wrote: > > hmm, now that you mention it, this is executing on a remote box with access > > to the same file system my local calling program is on. That is, there is a > > local call to an intermediate script that connects to a socket on the > > remote where the above program actually runs, but the file system is the > > same place for both local and remote. > > > > But even so, since the script that does the rmtree and mkdir is running on > > the same machine (even though it's remote), I would think the mkdir > > couldn't execute until the rmtree was completely finished. > > Hmm. What system is used for the file system sharing? I know quite a > few of them lie about whether something's been completely done or not. > Can you use inotify to tell you when the directory's been deleted? > Seems stupid though. > Worst case, all you need is a quick loop at the bottom, eg: > <<snip, thanks for the code and correction>> > ChrisA
Argg, this isn't the first time I've had troubles with the file system. This is FreeBSD and NFS. I will code up a progressive delay as you mentioned (with Steve's correction). thanks much! --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
