Re: sqlite3

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> With the current master, the test still fails for me about 20% of the
> time.  Seems like slightly less than before your recent changes, but
> I'm not sure.

Hm, that's disappointing.  It's annoying that I can't reproduce the
problem with any sort of reliability -- it only seems to happen, like,
1% of the times.

> I think fsync should be necessary because we use temporary files, and
> those are by default not fsync'ed when we close the descriptor to
> which we wrote.  At least on MS-Windows, I think this could mean other
> processes might get a stale file contents.

Right.  Perhaps we should consider doing this without the rename on
Windows?  (And without fsync on non-Windows.)

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