Re: Race condition in recovery?

On 6/14/21 1:50 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 6/14/21 1:11 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 12:56 PM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>> $^X is not at all broken.
>>>
>>> The explanation here is pretty simple - the argument to perl2host is
>>> meant to be a directory. If we're going to accomodate plain files then
>>> we have some more work to do in TestLib.
>> This explanation seems to contradict the documentation in TestLib.pm,
>> which makes no mention of any such restriction.
>
> Heres a snippet:
>
>
>     sub perl2host
>     {
>         my ($subject) = @_;
>         ...
>         if (chdir $subject)
>      
>
> Last time I looked you can't chdir to anything except a directory.



Actually, I take it back, it does work for a file. I'll change it. I
probably did this when something else wasn't working.


cheers


andrew


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