By forking a worker process and only deleting the test directory once it exits.
This way, if a test leaves files open, they'll get closed when the worker
exits, so avoiding failure to delete open files on Windows, and failure to
delete directories due to NFS lock files.
If a test leaves a git worker process running, the closed pipes should
cause the worker to exit too, also avoiding the problem there. The 10
second sleep ought to give plenty of time for such worker processes to
exit, although this is of course a race.
Finally, even if test directory fails to be deleted still,
it won't appear as if the last test in the test suite failed; the error
will be displayed at the very end.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Should fix this:
lock (v6 --force): FAIL
Exception: .git/annex/keys: removeDirectoryRecursive: unsatisfied constraints (Directory not empty)
Verified that the test case still catches the regression it's meant to.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Can be used to override the default timestamps used in log files in the
git-annex branch. This is a dangerous environment variable; use with
caution.
Note that this only affects writing to the logs on the git-annex branch.
It is not used for metadata in git commits (other env vars can be set for
that).
There are many other places where timestamps are still used, that don't
get committed to git, but do touch disk. Including regular timestamps
of files, and timestamps embedded in some files in .git/annex/, including
the last fsck timestamp and timestamps in transfer log files.
A good way to find such things in git-annex is to get for getPOSIXTime and
getCurrentTime, although some of the results are of course false positives
that never hit disk (unless git-annex gets swapped out..)
So this commit does NOT necessarily make git-annex comply with some HIPPA
privacy regulations; it's up to the user to determine if they can use it in
a way compliant with such regulations.
Benchmarking: It takes 0.00114 milliseconds to call getEnv
"GIT_ANNEX_VECTOR_CLOCK" when that env var is not set. So, 100 thousand log
files can be written with an added overhead of only 0.114 seconds. That
should be by far swamped by the actual overhead of writing the log files
and making the commit containing them.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
