> On 23 Jan 2018, at 12:00, Jim Newton <jnew...@lrde.epita.fr> wrote: > > If I run several sbcl processes on different nodes in my compute cluster, it > might happen that two different runs notice the same file needs to be > recompiled (via asdf), > and they might try to compile it at the same time. What is the best way to > prevent this? > > I see in the asdf documentation that there is an asdf:*user-cache* variable > whose > value is the path name of the directory where asdf compiles into. Would it > be advisable for my to arrange so that asdf:*user-cache* is a function of the > pid and hostname and perhaps thread-id (if such a thing exists) to avoid such > collisions? > > Or is there some better way to handle this which is build into asdf?
I had requested that ASDF includes the hostname (or machine-instance), in the built path for the cache. Unfortunately, for some reason, the maintainers of ASDF thought it was a good read to remove it. There you are! -- __Pascal J. Bourguignon__
