SUMMARY: internal synchronization error?

From: Pat Wilson <paw_at_northstar.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:54:06 +0032

I wrote:

        [ Saw this question in the archives, but couldn't find the summary
          answer... ]

        I'm seeing
                rm: internal synchronization error:
        on my nightly syslog.dated rotation/deletion cron job. The machine
        is running DU4.0D+pl2 (at least - could be pl3), and I'm *not* using
        AdvFS. Everything else seems normal.

        What's going on?


Thanks to
        John Becker <John.Becker_at_digital.com>
        Alan Davis <Davis_at_Tessco.Com>
        Jeffrey Mogul <mogul_at_actitis.pa.dec.com>

Apparently there's a potential race in recursive rm if multiple rm
processes are running simultaneously - one rm removes the file first, and
then the second one (working off a now out of date directory list) tries to
do rm the same file, which now isn't there. In general, it's not a problem
(since the rm really does happen).

Pat Wilson
paw_at_dartmouth.edu
Received on Wed Mar 10 1999 - 16:56:37 NZDT