File.createNewFile() randomly fails

Question

I\'ve build a simple test which creates and deletes a file (name does not change) in an infinite loop. The test does run for a couple of seconds (sometimes over 77,000 iteration

Answer 1

This issue reminds me a problem I experienced recently with the File.renameTo() method. It is (was?) due to this bug in the jvm :

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6213298

A weird workaround is to call System.gc() and to retry renaming the file again (and it works...).

Not sure it has a link with your issue, but it may be worth exploring...