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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com,
	Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>,
	25018-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25018: GC incorrectly removes the temporary root file of the calling process
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:01:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zge43y6a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmf34afr.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:59:20 -0400")

Hi Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> I'm not Eelco, but your change LGTM.  Note that the upstream version
> still uses the original code [0].

Right.

> I've installed the change, tested that it had the expected result:
>
> reading temporary root file `/var/guix/temproots/8386'
> waiting for read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/8386'
> got temporary root `/gnu/store/0siy93lggjw7sfdg8gsvrzafaa974h2d-foo'
> considering whether to delete `/gnu/store/0siy93lggjw7sfdg8gsvrzafaa974h2d-foo'
> |   cannot delete `/gnu/store/0siy93lggjw7sfdg8gsvrzafaa974h2d-foo' because it's a root
> |   cannot delete `/gnu/store/0siy93lggjw7sfdg8gsvrzafaa974h2d-foo' because it's still reachable
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> ERROR:
>   1. &store-protocol-error:
>       message: "cannot delete path `/gnu/store/0siy93lggjw7sfdg8gsvrzafaa974h2d-foo' since it is still alive"
>       status: 1
>
> and pushed!

Thank you!  (Your bug triage work is much appreciated!)  We could turn
the example here in a unit test; the only downside is that running the
GC in a test is expensive.

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-10  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-24 14:07 bug#25018: GC incorrectly removes the temporary root file of the calling process Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-07 20:59 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-10-10  8:01   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-10-10 10:29     ` Maxime Devos
2022-10-10 14:53       ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-14 20:30     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-17  1:25       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-10-17  8:51         ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-18 15:33           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-10-10 17:24 ` bug#25018: Broken test suite Ryan Sundberg via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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