RFR: 8005582 - java/lang/Runtime/exec/WinCommand.java intermittent test failures

[Jim Gish]

I have not yet been able to reproduce it, but now that I have a Windows 
7 VM setup, I'm going to try.  Windows sysinternals has a program called 
handle.exe which I have used for years in determining who is holding 
file handles.  If we could install this on our test machines and invoke 
it after a failed test like this, we'd have a better shot at tracking 
this down.

Jim

On 01/10/2013 06:34 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 09/01/2013 19:46, Jim Gish wrote:
>> It's a Windows feature.  We discovered this recently in debugging 
>> another test failure.  Windows is documented to do asynchronous 
>> deletes.  You can't depend on a file.delete() which returns true to 
>> have actually deleted the file.  It may be the case that another 
>> process has a file handle which it has not yet released, or it's 
>> simply a delay.
> I don't get this, the issue sounds more like AV software or Windows 
> application quality service/agent thing accessing the file but I might 
> be wrong of course. Are you able to duplicate this reliably and if so, 
> have you looked at it with any tools to see what/who is accessing it 
> that is causing the delay?
>
> -Alan.

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