Hi Paul, > However, you really don't need to reproduce this: the > situation is well > known and understood by Sun; there's no question about what > the behavior > is. However Sun maintains that it works as designed and expected and > that the behavior is allowed by the relevant standards, and > as far as I > know, they aren't interested in changing it.
This is a shame. > You can find more info here including posts by Casper Dik, > who works for > Sun and knows a ton about these issues. Thanks for this info. > I think there's even a case mentioned by Paul Eggert that he filed with > Sun that you can reference (although he says it was closed). Caspar Dik also mentions a bug report he filed with NFS - I'll follow this up. >I would be VERY interested in hearing from people using GNU make 3.81 in >massively parallel situations (however, the parallelism has to be >limited; using "-j" with no limit won't use the jobserver at all so it >won't show this problem) about how often they still see these sorts of >failures. We typically use -j2 or 3 or 4. I'll pop 3.81 into action soon and let you know in a few months if the problem goes away - I say a few months as it only happens on rare occasions. Thanks for all you help with 3.81 - much appreciated. Many regards, David Carter-Hitchin. -- Royal Bank of Scotland Interest Rate Derivatives IT --LongSig *********************************************************************************** The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure. The Royal Bank of Scotland plc does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. Visit our websites at: http://www.rbos.com http://www.rbsmarkets.com *********************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
