Spurious rebuild of Versions.v.i
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Wed Nov 12 01:19:00 GMT 2003
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:06:57PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Also included are some non-parallel-make-safe constructs. In general,
> > anything which can cause recursion to a parent directory is unsafe; I
> > just had two subdirectories attempt to recreate Versions.v.i at the
> > same time. Looks like rtld-csu and rtld-gmon.
>
> That is redundant but should not be unsafe. That is, the unnecessary
> rebuilds should produce the correct results.
I don't remember precisely what went wrong, but I'm guessing that it's
the use of a temporary file with a fixed name (Versions.v.iT).
Redirecting into the file from both awks may produce strange results,
f.ex. temporary corruption of Versions.i long enough to generate a
corrupt Versions.v.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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