[Scons-users] Text file busy race condition bug on linux

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:01 PM, David Roundy <
roundyd at physics.oregonstate.edu> wrote:


>

> ...

> The circumstances are that I am building an executable, and then running

> that executable to generate another file.  I am using a cache, and have

> never observed the bug while the cache was disabled.  The cache is on an

> NFS filesystem (my home directory), and I have only observed the bug when

> building on /tmp, which is a local disk.  The error message is (just

> cutting some of the output):

> ...

> sh: 1: ./hello-0059: Text file busy

>

>

That's an NFS error.  You won't see it on a local filesystem; all
Unix/Linux filesystems can handle overwriting in-use files.  But with NFS
things get much more complex.  Your best bet is to check and adjust your
NFS mount options.

-- 
Gary
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