RFR: 8256489: Make gtest for long path names on Windows more resilient in the presence of virus scanners

[David Holmes]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:41:47 GMT, Ralf Schmelter <rschmelter at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> a virus scanner can keep a file open on Windows, so that a DeleteFile command returns successful, but the file is actually not removed when the call returns. In the gtest for long path names on Windows this can lead to failures when a directory is tried to be removed, but the file inside it is still kept by the virus scanner.
> 
> Since this is an error which only occurs very infrequently, we just retry the deletion a few times. 
> 
> Best regards,
> Ralf

@schmelter-sap please do not force-push changes as it breaks the commit history and the PR review history. I can't now examine what you actually changed between the two commits, only look afresh at the whole thing.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1380