Nick Wellnhofer created LUCY-280:
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Summary: Test suite failures because of Windows file deletion semantics
Key: LUCY-280
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCY-280
Project: Lucy
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Store
Affects Versions: 0.4.2
Reporter: Nick Wellnhofer
Priority: Minor
There are at least two tests that fail randomly on Windows due to non-POSIX file deletion
semantics. The problem is that Windows doesn't guarantee that a file is deleted immediately
if there's another open handle on the file. (I'm still not sure what other processes open
handles on random files. It might be virus scanners, but there are also sources that claim
that internal Windows services like the Volume Shadow Copy Service are responsible.)
It's possible that only the test suite is affected but I'd prefer a global solution to this
problem. I think the best approach is to do something like Cygwin: instead of deleting a file,
move it to the recycle bin and set the delete-on-close flag. Unfortunately, it's rather complicated
to implement this properly. See the [Cygwin source code|https://github.com/mirror/cygwin/blob/master/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc],
functions {{unlink_nt}} and {{try_to_bin}}.
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