[PATCH] autobuild: Stop waf uninstall from removing test_tmpdir

[Andreas Schneider]

On Monday, 20 March 2017 09:53:08 CET Stefan Metzmacher via samba-technical 
wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> >> waf uninstall (via BuildContext.install() in Build.py) removes empty
> >> directories all the way up the directory tree.  This means that it
> >> removes test_tmpdir and any empty directories above it.
> 
> How did you find that?

One possibility is to use socket_wrapper and wrap rmdir(), then you can can do 
something like:

int rmdir(const char *path)
{
	if (strcmp(path, "/tmp") == 0) {
		abort();
	}

	...
}

Or do something like:

https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2015/03/26/hunting-down-a-fd-closing-bug-in-samba/



	Andreas


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