Re: Rename unreliable on Windows

Script runs fine for me; no crashes. Windows 2008 R2, Perl 5.12.4.

I suspect you're triggering some sort of race condition in Windows' file locking, but even if I removed the print to STDOUT to try to speed things up, I wasn't able to trigger it. Sleeping for a few microseconds before calling rename might help.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re^2: Rename unreliable on Windows by elef (Friar) on Apr 04, 2012 at 11:46 UTC
Thanks, I tested this with `usleep 50000;` but it didn't help. See resolution above (backup software was locking files).	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Rename unreliable on Windows by Anonymous Monk on Apr 04, 2012 at 12:54 UTC
Good catch. Points out that any operation that might possibly fail, especially when run on end-user machines (that are commonly less-privileged than the [foolishly, too privileged] developer machines), should trap for runtime errors with `eval` or otherwise, and be prepared to handle them plausibly.	[reply]