Hello monks,

I'm writing some code around SVN::Client. During testing, I'd like to be able to create and delete working copies. However, I find that once I've created a working copy I am unable to cleanly delete that working copy without ending the process that created the working copy.

Here's some code that produces the warning: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use SVN::Client;
use File::Path qw(rmtree);

my $repo = 'file:///nfs/pdx/disks/mdo_cttr_prod/dev/tmp/repo_test/repo
+1';
my $path = '/nfs/pdx/disks/mdo_cttr_prod/dev/tmp/repo_test/wc1';

my $client = new SVN::Client(
    auth => [ SVN::Client::get_username_provider() ],
);

# checkout a working copy
my $rev = $client->checkout( $repo, $path, 'HEAD', 0 );

# eliminate the client
$client = undef;

# attempt to remove wc
# this produces the warning for being unable to remove directory
rmtree $path;

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This is on Linux and this is the generated warnings: 

cannot remove directory for /nfs/pdx/disks/mdo_cttr_prod/dev/tmp/repo_
+test/wc1/.svn: Directory not empty at tmp.pl line 21.
cannot remove directory for /nfs/pdx/disks/mdo_cttr_prod/dev/tmp/repo_
+test/wc1: Directory not empty at tmp.pl line 21.

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The problem seems to be due to this .nfs file: 

plxcf4060> ls -alrt wc1/.svn
total 132
-rw-r----- 1 rptrdev rptrusrs 122880 Oct  6 10:54 .nfs000000000711c5da
+000000c9
drwxr-s--- 2 rptrdev rptrusrs   4096 Oct  6 10:54 .
drwxr-s--- 3 rptrdev rptrusrs   4096 Oct  6 10:54 ..

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Despite having undefined the client, this lock file seems to be left behind and I'm uncertain as to how to release it.

I have this comment from some old code I wrote that seems to summarize the issue. I have been unfortunately unable to dig up my source on this comment to research further (and I can't even be certain as to the accuracy of the information contained in comment) 

    # Currently, the below code is unable to release the sqlite
    # database file used to store data because SVN::Client module has
    # no perl code for releasing the lock it aquires on the .svn
    # working copy db.wc file.  In order to accomplish this, it seems
    # that svn_wc_context_destroy must be called.  This seems to be
    # built into the XS code written for the perl bindings, but there 
    # does not seem to be a perl binding written to utilize it.  Until
    # this is resolved, the only way to release the lock on the
    # database file is to terminate the process that acquired it.

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Any ideas on how to release this working copy properly so it can be deleted between tests?

In reply to SVN::Client -- deleting created working copy results in 'cannot remove directory' by tj_thompson

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