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Any error other than ENOENT is a bit suspicious here, and perhaps should not be grounds for assuming the postmaster has failed. For the moment though, just report it, and don't change the behavior otherwise. The intent is mainly to try to determine why we are seeing intermittent failures in this area on some buildfarm members. Back-patch to 9.5 where some of these failures have happened.
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