[Python-Dev] bsddb: Test failures on windows (HELP!)

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amauryfa at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 16:23:21 CEST 2008


Tres Seaver wrote:
> Mark Hammond wrote:
>
>>> Trent, I was wondering if you could look at some test failures in MS
>>> Windows builds. I can't debug Windows issues myself :-(. This is a MS
>>> free environment...
>>
>> In these errors I see lots of bsdbd errors, many of the form:
>>
>> | DBFileExistsError: (17, 'File exists -- __fop_file_setup:  Retry limit
>> (100) exceeded')
>
> Maybe this one is due to the fact that Windows, unlike POSIX, doesn't
> allow unlinking an open file?

I see that some tests use os.unlink. They should use
test_support.unlink() instead.

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc


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