[rt.cpan.org #118094] Race condition exists when building cache for pp built executables
[email protected] ("Roderich Schupp via RT")
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Fri Dec 30 05:53:05 2016: Request 118094 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: Race condition exists when building cache for pp built executables
Broken in: 1.017, 1.032
Severity: Important
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: [email protected]
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118094 >
On 2016-09-26 16:31:25, [email protected] wrote:
> These errors only seem to occur when:
> 1. multiple instances of the executable is started simultaneously; the
> more instances started the more likely the problem is to occur.
Yeah, during bootstrap (and later) files are extracted from the executable
and written to the cache area without any precaution that several concurrently
running processes might do the same.
Fixed in versions PAR 1.014 and PAR::Packer 1.036, just uploaded to CPAN.
Cheers, Roderich