[issue7719] distutils: ignore .nfsXXXX files

[Sandro Tosi]

Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 23:40, Éric Araujo <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:
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> Do you have any pointer about those .nfs* files?  Are there other (build) tools that ignore them?  Is it always safe to skip .nfs* files, or only .nfs????? (i.e. six characters)?

Just replying for this part: .nfs* files are created by the nfs server
when on of its client removes a file while another client has the very
same file opened. the nfs server keeps the .nfs* file around until the
last client closes the file, after that it removes the .nfs* file.

About the number of digits after '.nfs' I'm not sure there's a
standard for it, but I saw files with more that 6 chars after that.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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