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

Ralf Schmelter rschmelter at openjdk.java.net
Wed Nov 25 13:19:56 UTC 2020


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

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 26e6cb3e
Author:    Ralf Schmelter <rschmelter at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/26e6cb3e
Stats:     14 lines in 1 file changed: 12 ins; 0 del; 2 mod

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, clanger

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


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