Re: backup manifests and contemporaneous buildfarm failures

Hello,

>> Do I need to precede those with some recursive chmod commands? Perhaps
>> the client should refuse to run if there is still something left after
>> these.
>
> I think the latter would be a very good idea, just so that this sort of
> failure is less obscure.  Not sure about whether a recursive chmod is
> really going to be worth the cycles.  (On the other hand, the normal
> case should be that there's nothing there anyway, so maybe it's not
> going to be costly.)

Could it be a two-stage process to minimize cost but still be resilient?

   rmtree
   if (-d $DIR) {
     emit warning
     chmodtree
     rmtree again
     if (-d $DIR)
       emit error
   }

-- 
Fabien.