[OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] kern-tools: fix processing for no branch meta-data

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2016-12-07 6:50 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Bruce Ashfield
>> <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:
>>> With the attached patch, I see nothing else that is named  in /tmp/
>>>
>>> If you have the cycles, can you give it a try and let me know ?
>>
>> Yes, I'm giving it a whirl right now. Thanks!
>
> That patch looks good, how soon can it land? ;-)

For my part, I'll send it first thing tomorrow along with some version
bumps to the kernel.

>
> I'm sure there's still something in the build that is creating
> temporary files in /tmp. I'm not sure which process is doing it, I
> have no reason to suspect it's the kernel tools (in fact I think it
> happens too early in the build to be the kernel tools), and the tmp
> files that are created are named with temporary names (e.g.
> /tmp/tmp.2wavbhTlDU) so they shouldn't interfere with multiple users
> building on the same machine. Each build appears to create two such
> temp files that aren't cleaned up at the end of the build. Not a big
> deal. I don't think it's something new that was introduced recently
> (but I'd have to do more investigation to verify).

I noticed one mktemp file leaking when I was fixing the bug at hand
today. I made a note to loop back and have a look for where an early
exit is skipping clean up.

If it is the tools, I'll fix it along with the patch I did today.

Bruce

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