Re: varenv3.sub fails on some systems some of the time.

[Scott]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 09:08:30AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 2/20/15 6:56 AM, Scott wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When we run the bash unittests on some system we occasionally get a error
> > in the varenv3.sub script.
> >
> > ./varenv3.sub: cannot open named pipe /tmp/bash_tests.8150/sh-np-5140328
> > for writing: No such file or directory
> > ./varenv3.sub: line 30: /tmp/bash_tests.8150/sh-np-843885584: No such file
> > or directory
>
> Does the directory (which I assume is $TMPDIR) exist?

Yeah, directory exists which is why it works some of the time.  I can 
reproduce the error with

chmod u+x varenv3.sub; while ./varenv3.sub ; do sleep 0.1; done

with default TMPDIR.

HTH.

Scott.

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