[wildfly-dev] Keep getting directory not exists errors in build

[Bill Burke]

On 6/3/2013 1:12 PM, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote:
> We often need to test in non-ideal environments especially older
> machines with proprietary software and cloud. Transient failures tend to
> lose a lot of time especially when they happen to fail consistently in
> particular environment. Not only QE time but also dev time.
> Also test suite becomes hard to run by inexperienced with the particular
> test suite people, e.g. self-certification and certification services
> become a hard goal.
>
> That's why I think that, as stupid as it sounds, such a loop is better
> than dealing with this when least expected.
>

By loop, I meant looping-forever is a bad idea.

> Does this class throw in your environment? If it works then perhaps the
> problem is an actual bug in test controller (it works for me on fedora
> 18). And if it fails then it must be a bug in the JVM.. at least the way
> I understand mkdir() javadoc.
>
I'm running on Windows.  (Windows 7).  Quad-core. Dual Raid 0 Intel 
SSDs.  A lot of variables here.  Could be the JVM, Windows, or some 
quirkiness in SSD or Raid drivers.  I don't know what to tell you and I 
don't have time to dive into any one of those variables.


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Bill Burke
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