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fix root-ownership race conditions in meta-test #262

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@isaacs isaacs commented Sep 30, 2019

Currently all of our tests verify on teardown that there are no
root-owned files in the cache.

However, owing to some race conditions and slippery stream event
deferral behavior that won't be fixed until v7, occasionally cacache's
chown doesn't get processed until after the promise resolves and the
test ends.

As a result, sometimes this check occurs before the chown has happened,
resulting in flaky hard-to-reproduce failures.

The somewhat-kludgey solution here is to move the ownership check from
t.teardown to process.on('exit'). In npm v7, we should move it back to
t.teardown, because we should never have a test that resolves in such a
way as to leave the cache in an invalid state.

Currently all of our tests verify on teardown that there are no
root-owned files in the cache.

However, owing to some race conditions and slippery stream event
deferral behavior that won't be fixed until v7, occasionally cacache's
chown doesn't get processed until _after_ the promise resolves and the
test ends.

As a result, sometimes this check occurs before the chown has happened,
resulting in flaky hard-to-reproduce failures.

The somewhat-kludgey solution here is to move the ownership check from
t.teardown to process.on('exit').  In npm v7, we should move it back to
t.teardown, because we should never have a test that resolves in such a
way as to leave the cache in an invalid state.
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@isaacs isaacs deleted the isaacs/less-flaky-root-owned-detection branch October 2, 2020 21:41
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