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On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Jan Dubois wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: >> >> That code is single-threaded in Perl, isn't it? So what might be holding >> "open" the directory, but lets it go within 0.25s. > > I would look for any kind of filesystem monitoring services on the > machine, like on-access virus scanners, or shell extensions (Dropbox, > SkyDrive; don't know about version control plugins). All of them may > keep handles to file and directory objects open and might need a > little bit of idle time to recognize that the objects are gone and the > handles should be closed. Based on the test I'm guessing the blead smoker and smoke-me smoker were running that test at the same time and interfered with each other because the test uses a fixed name in the same directory. It's a Windows 2000 VM set up specifically for Perl smoking so it doesn't have anything special like that. Both drives are actual virtual drives under the full control of the VM, not shared folders, so there should not be any external interaction. All the Perl stuff runs on D: to isolate it from the system drive. I don't remember cpan/Win32API-File/t/file.t being one of the repeated intermittent failures. (IPC-Cmd & threads.t#9) -- George Greer