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Subject: Re: [MTT devel] race condition in SCM module
From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-17 17:23:07

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On Feb 10, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Mike Dubman wrote:

> There is a race condition in SCM, Mercurial module when used from MPI GET phase:
>
> - scm_post_copy hook can be started before MPI GET completed copy of fetched tree into install location.

How have you verified this?

> - This leads to mtt failure, because post_copy starts too early (tree was not copied yet) and fails.
> - adding sleeps to post_copy hook - helps.
> - does copytree used during mtt get phase have async behave?

No, it shouldn't. Everything is serial.

>
>
> ---------------- from the mtt -d -v output ---------------------
>
> copytree running post_copy command:
> ...
> ...
>
> >> copytree finished copying
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Please suggest.
>
> Thanks
>
> M
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