On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 20:28 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> This is not specifically related to jfs, I've just got this nagging
> doubt that it might be (somehow):
> 
> I've got a Makefile where part of an instruction sequence looks like
> this:
> 
> target:  source
>         mv source otherplace
>         4-5 instructions that work on <otherplace>
> 
> I've been getting weird results and errors, so I added a test:
> 
> target: source
>         mv source otherplace
>         test -f source && false
> 
> Very surprisingly - to me anyway - this actually fails every now and
> then.  Not frequently, but enough to be a problem.  I've got a feeling
> this may be a filesystem problem.  Can anyone explain why the above
> would fail?

No, I can't explain it.  I can try to reproduce it on my own.  This is
just a single-threaded make, right?
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center


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