From: "Peter A. Bigot" <pab@pabigot.com>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: why does useradd.bbclass loop retrying its commands?
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 10:53:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54678509.3080902@pabigot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416068535.28563.0.camel@linuxfoundation.org>
On 11/15/2014 10:22 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 23:37 -0600, Peter A. Bigot wrote:
>> The useradd, groupadd, and groupmems commands in useradd.bbclass are
>> executed in a loop with up to 10 failed attempts before they give up.
>> This appears to have always been the case, as long as that file has been
>> present.
>>
>> Is there any reason why an initial failed attempt to execute one of
>> these commands would be expected to succeed on retry, other than because
>> delaying failure gives a chance for concurrently executing task to
>> complete and so satisfy a dependency?
> Another recipe can be altering the files and holding the lock so in
> theory, yes, the retries can help.
Makes sense. I do see that extrausers.bbclass has a comment explaining
why it only passes retries=1.
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-15 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-15 5:37 why does useradd.bbclass loop retrying its commands? Peter A. Bigot
2014-11-15 16:22 ` Richard Purdie
2014-11-15 16:53 ` Peter A. Bigot [this message]
2014-11-15 21:19 ` Mark Hatle
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