Re: Permission Denied error while killing Gmake on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric DeCosta <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>,
>         Troy Runkel
>       <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:48:59 +0000
> 
> Sure, easy enough loop around looking at the return value from unlink, 
> sleeping for 0.1 sec and trying again if unlink fails.  There still should be 
> some maximum amount of time to try before giving up.  Do you think 3 seconds 
> is too long in that case?

I think if you really need to wait for 3 seconds or thereabouts,
there's some factor at work here that needs to be understood.  I could
buy some very short delays without understanding the reasons, "just
because it works", but 3 seconds is too long to wait without
understanding why.