Re: APR 1.0 released

Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:
> 
> > > Personally I don't think that any rename()-usleep loop is necessary.
> > > I'll check the archives.
> > 
> > I agree the rename loop seems unnecessary.  I kept it in case we hadn't
> > dealt with all the failure places.  Should we remove them now or wait
> > for 8.1?  Seems we should keep them in and see if we get reports from
> > users of looping forever, and if not we can remove them in 8.1.
> 
> What I do not understand is, that Windows has rename and _unlink.
> Are we using those or not?
> 
> Looping forever is certainly not good, but I thought the current code
> had a limited loop. I think a limited loop is required, since both
> rename and _unlink can not cope with a locked file.

The current code prints a log message after 30 tries but keeps trying.
We don't use the native ones because they don't work on open files
properly.

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